White Iowa Teacher Tells Black Student To Respond To Him Saying, “Yes sir, master”

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10. No, but everybody knows abouta Mississippi, God Damn!

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Rightly or wrongly, the states whose economy depended on slavery, who fought a civil war over extending slavery to the territories, who gave us the KKK, who adopted Jim Crow laws and who changed in voting from the Solid Democratic South to the Solid Republican South after Truman and LBJ--and who to this day nostalgically celebrate the days of slavery in their glorification of "antebellum" days--those states are better known for racism, even though racism probably existed, and still exists, among some inhabitants of every state and some inhabitants of the South were, and still are, opposed to both slavery and racism.

ETA: I did not misspell "about." I have heard a version in which Ms. Simone went very slowly on the line and added an "uh" sound between "about" and "Mississippi" for emphasis.

Also, from the Maddow show, a celebration of what Northerners somewhat impartially refer to as the Civil War and what some in the South still refer to as "the War of Northern Aggression."


(If anyone wants to celebrates the start of a war, as opposed to the end of one, who you'd think it would be the victors, not the losers--that's, of course assuming wars have any winners).