Others have objected: Isn’t the North just better for Black people than the South?
Many Black people are leery of the South, if not afraid of it. They still have in their minds a retrograde South: dirty and dusty, overgrown and underdeveloped, a third-world region in a first-world country. They see a region that is unenlightened and repressive, overrun by religious zealots and open racists. The caricatures have calcified: hillbillies and banjos, Confederate flags and the Ku Klux Klan.
To be sure, all of that is here. But racism is more evenly distributed across the country than we are willing to admit.
I can't believe Mr. Blow wrote this.
He should know better as a Lousiana native and Grambling grad.
What Black people? Many? NAH. How are we afraid of somewhere we always lived, visited -- and family is still at?
Who thinks this about the South?
I see what the Mr. Blow was trying to do. But, it comes off wrong and disconnected.
but don’t touch the grill,y’all can’t cook like us yet
Don’t bring any bullshyt this way, talking bout a damn chopped cheese sandwich
