@Smokin Joe
No kidding! Been there myself. "Hope" is the keyword. Just a little bit of it can go a long ways.
Once the lie is exposed,the Dims have NOTHING!
Ironically enough,the draft was a great equalizer,and opened the eyes of MANY blacks who had never really been that personally familiar with whites,and had lived their whole lives in big city ghettos without ever dealing or socializing with whites,and believing what the Rev-Runds had been telling them about how all non-Jewish whites were "evil and want to enslave you again".
Truth to tell,the racial friction between rural whites and rural blacks has pretty much always been non-existent because rural people HAVE to help each other in times of need or none of them will survive. They didn't socialize much,but they did know each other,and they did help each other when help was needed,even if it was nothing more than dropping by after a family death and leaving some money to help the survivors pay for the funeral and have a little money to help them through the season.
And,of course,they always helped each other when help was needed with the crops.
EVERY time you heard or read about racial strife in the 50's and 60's,it was in the cities.
All true, especially about the relationships between rural blacks and whites, at least where I grew up.
Agitators from Washington DC came down to southern Maryland and tried to stir up trouble in the '60s, and I remember a older (black) gentleman telling my mother they 'had to send those boys home, 'cause they were trying to cause trouble with their white folks, and they'd never had trouble with their white folks' (the last stated with a sense of pride).
Living on the river, too, a sinking boat knows no color, the water will swallow all. You lend a hand, you take their boat in tow, you fish them out, whoever they are. Maybe that's where I'm seeing something similar in the Blacks and Hispanics who came here for work, we have a common enemy--Winter, we have common goals: better for our families without the strife you see elsewhere. Although there is some of the 'city black' culture (and the crime that goes with it, noticeable in a community which had much less crime before the boom, but which tripled in size and had the added benefit of being advertised nationwide as being a great place to be a criminal in a documentary series which was, in itself, a crime) , I have seen a lot of the rural mentality, too.
Given the opportunity to root out the real problems of crime (and drug use --problems with or without crime, and often leading to poor choices) people will go one way or the other, but there are still a lot of Americans who dream the dream, of a family, means to support them, a nice home, etc. It's still there after all these years of Communists pushing victimhood and divisiveness, trying to tear America apart along the superficial lines they think exist, playing identity politics based on nothing but appearance.
In reality, without going all Pollyanna, I think America is better than that, Americans are better than that, and all can have more if they choose to. Get the fomenters of hatred out of the way, no matter what color or heritage they have, and it will happen. Most people don't want trouble with their neighbors, don't want to look over their shoulders at night, want to feel safe, want their children to be able to go to the park without worrying that they might not come home, and want to know their neighbors will gladly lend a hand if they need it.
Who doesn't want that?
