Reply #119: If anyone thinks that the occasional white rural church [View All]

[TexasLady]

doesn't spew racism, no maybe not in the pulpit, but 'after hours' while people gather around chitchatting, hasn't seen or heard what I've heard.

I was lucky, my grandmothers , and my parents were pretty open minded towards other races. My father gets the most credit for that. But I will never forget as a kid, going with my grandma to her little Baptist church, where men and ladies made ugly racial comments all the time, regardless what race, except for whites, of course. It was whispered, and accepted.

Even in the nineties, our landlady at the time made it clear that, after she heard we had black friends over, demanded to know why were we associating with 'those kinds of people'. Like it was any of her business. Know what she did? After announcing one day that 'bluebirds don't flock with redbirds', she sold the house we rented from her to, guess what, her own Baptist preacher, and we had 30 days to find another home. This woman was the pillar of her church. A fine upstanding woman of the community. And a bigot.

It's why I liked the speech. Folks talk in the barbershops, the kitchen table, and to deny it is to stick your head in the sand.

Just wanted to add, that right here in my hometown, after 9-11, and the march to war, churches everywhere were spewing political war crap right on their own billboards. Made me sick.