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Originally Posted by perrjojo
Being a Southern girl, I have always been amazed at how people freely condemn the South for racism. Of course it does exist but I'm not so certain that is really that much more prevalent here than any other area. I have certainly seen racism in all parts of the country. I also think some of the larger numbers on the map are in proportion to the population.
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The most racist person I ever met was a "prince" from the Ivory Coast who was studying at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was in my Minorities in the US Anthropology/Sociology course. He seemed to think that because ancestors of African-Americans had come over in slave ships that Africans were somehow superior because of this lineage. Some of these ancestors of Africans had been slave traders. This kind of reasoning never made much sense to me. That is to say that the sins and/or heroics of the great great fathers/mothers somehow influence the merit of the great great grandsons/granddaughters. Of course, someone who thinks in terms of bloodlines like some "royals" and their fans would probably be open to this kind of logic.