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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I don't know Bubba Wallace and I feel sorry that he found a noose. I hope someone who was not at all racist didn't put it there to further make a point. I am not black, I can't know how it is to live with the terrible injustices of being treated badly because of my race. I am white and I do understand that the poster known to us as "Time for Change" has all of the feelings and warmth and good connections that we all do with the place of our birth and early life. In Ohio, in School we sang a lot of folk music like "Dixie" and never, ever connected any of it to slavery. When we paint with a broad brush, no matter what it is, we get paint on things we really didn't want to paint.
Anyone can see that some posters are way past being mad. Anyone can see that there are a lot of people who have never harmed another soul who are being chastised for something that isn't their fault. It is so wrong to group people together and think they are all flawed. Two wrongs don't make a right. You shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. I feel a reverse prejudice against all country people from city people here. Hating is wrong no matter who does it. It hurts all people.
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Today I almost feel like 1968 again when I was in Vietnam when both Bobby Kennedy and MLK were killed. My closet friends (other troops) were black. You cannot imagine the hurt I felt for them being half way around the world fighting in a war that hardly anyone but Pres Johnson supported. Some just would not speak to me anymore. Some got very upset and I was afraid of what they would do (fragging). We are way past that level of feeling today. The pure hate across this Country is at a peak. I'm afraid of what may happen and if will ever end without losing (don't want to say).