Reply #40: My mother grew up in North Carolina and actively taught us not to be racists [View All]

[lunatica]

She had friends from other races who she worked with and who she socialized with and who she invited to our home on a regular basis. If we did anything that could be seen as racist, such as when my brother at the age of 10 drew a swastika on his forearm we received a history lesson on what it meant and what happened in the Holocaust. They never just told us not to say things. They told us why and what the history of hate has done in the world. Both my parents were actively anti-racists if such a thing exists.

My mother's father was a farmer in North Carolina and once when his children's school burned down he sent them to the black kids' school. The local KKK burned a cross in his front yard. It didn't stop him. He also sent all his daughters to college because he believed that women were equal. This was 70 years ago.

There are people in the South who aren't stereotypes.