(02-16-2023, 11:19 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Traditional values are applied to all Americans without discrimination, but when you point out that all Americans don't share that experience, Mikey gets discriminatory. Funny how that works.

Many of us can't remember our parents passing any racist or pro segregation views on us.  My parents didn't.  But some of the kids I went to school with, their parents did.  And it was salient then because we were going through forced desegregation.  That's why us kids discussed it.  I slept over with friends whose parents would openly say things like "you can't let them run stuff.  Look at Liberia.  That's what happens when you put them in charge of stuff."  Awful and unfair things like that said at dinner tables.  Maybe that didn't happen in north Carolina.  It did happen in Jax. And this isn't white guilt either. I heard black kids saying bad things about whites as well. I distinctly remember one of the kids they bussed over bullying me. There may have been others that I don't remember. I didn't think it was good to bring people who didnt want to go to a school all the way across town, across town. Everything's better when all the families at a particular school have chosen that school. But I digress.

It's salient here now because, even though your parents maybe didn't pass that on as a tradition, and mine didn't, and Americus' didn't, the kids I encountered, whose parents did, they are also out there, they're voting age now, and they're listening to the same politicians we listen to.  It's a dog whistle.  You swear you don't hear it, but the people who know, hear it.

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