Any Duck Dynasty Debate Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by The Poet

Yeah, I'm surprised nobody on here seemed to notice that part of the interview controversy, and only the same-sex stuff. When I read that he said he worked beside blacks in his younger days ('50s and '60s) and never once heard one of them say "Doggone the white folks" or whatever, I didn't know if I should laugh or scream in anger. Do I believe he never heard that from a black man in segregated Louisiana? Damn straight I believe it. And HAD he heard something like that, he wouldn't have heard it again, since the "offender" would have been beaten, shot, or lynched within hours . . . if not by Paul or his family, by the fellow "white trash" (his words, not mine) down the road.

Does one have a First Amendment right to say what one wants? Well, what if what he's saying is "Let's lynch that farkin' . . . . ", well, you know the word that comes next.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and comment. I have lived in the south the whole of my life. I'm not stupid enough to think that racism in the south didn't exist okay and don't still exist. But...... I read the comments and he said with his own eyes. I have traveled to the northeast quite a bit to visit family and I have heard the N word far more times there than I have in the south in my adult years. The stereo types are a bunch of rednecks that hate and lynch and all sorts of other things toward people that aren't white, but it simply isn't what I see with my own eyes as a southern man. everyone has a right to their opinion, but I see, and have seen much more racism in the north than I ever did in the south. I was actually shocked believe it or not, because whether we like it or not stereotypes affect us. I aint buying it. The man said the they were Godly and happy and I am gonna take him at his word that that's what he saw where he lived. We can make all the assumptions we want to, but at the end of the day we weren't there with him.

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Greg, my experiences have been very similar. I lived in a very small town in TN for many years. Grew up in the most racist neighborhood I have ever experience anywhere. Cross burnings in yards in the early 80's. A families home burned down in the late 70's because they were the wrong race. I grew up in Indianapolis, IN, Ravenswood was the suburb name. I lived in Tullahoma TN. The racist experiences in Ravenswood far exceeded those in Tullahoma, Winchester, Deckerd, and Belvidere TN combined. It is naive at best to think racism doesnt exist anywhere in this country but I have experienced far worse in the north than the south.

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Originally Posted by dijit

Greg, my experiences have been very similar. I lived in a very small town in TN for many years. Grew up in the most racist neighborhood I have ever experience anywhere. Cross burnings in yards in the early 80's. A families home burned down in the late 70's because they were the wrong race. I grew up in Indianapolis, IN, Ravenswood was the suburb name. I lived in Tullahoma TN. The racist experiences in Ravenswood far exceeded those in Tullahoma, Winchester, Deckerd, and Belvidere TN combined. It is naive at best to think racism doesnt exist anywhere in this country but I have experienced far worse in the north than the south.

Theres a lot more that I would like to say my friend, but in the spirit of the rules I will be careful to tread lightly. And the fact that most all brothers I have met here, no matter where they are from seem to be more conservative and tolerant even if we don't agree with whatever someone says or believes. I'm not trying to turn this into an argument against anyone, just stating what I have witnessed with my own eyes, much like Phil Robertson said.