Originally Posted by saltwn

No. What some people do not understand is that there were many vocal and active racists in the South, but the silence of the rest of us made us complicit. We were/are ashamed of that. That is why some southern whites gladly joined the civil rights movement in whatever ways were available to them. ALL of my grade school teachers were from the south and they are the source I drew from in how to treat people unlike myself. Also it is in the bible and many southerners were/are religious. We read the word of God and understand he would not want us to treat other children of God cruely or neglectfully.