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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Jimmy Carter
  • Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:33:45 -0800

Part of the problem with the whole discussion is that there isn't a "whole" discussion and can't/won't ever be one. The different sections of this country are like whole different countries.

Where I grew up there were no black/white drinking fountains or bathrooms or use the back of the bus. It was like reading about people living in another country.

When I was in the 4th grade, one of my best friends' mother married a black man. It was only a big deal to *his* family. That was in the 50s.

I did learn a lot about the whole mind set from Grampa Charlie (Tennessee) and my nanny (Georgia) but it was still way different than what was on television. Of course, neither of them lived in the big cities. They lived rural. So there you have a whole other "country" too.

This country is WAY too busy wanting everyone to fit into a certain mold and way to stupid/dense to figure out that individuality is a good thing.

Sorry, I think same and average and blended is a bad thing <g> We should be accepting and celebrating each person's unique qualities.

Personally, I think we've gone WAY overboard with this whole PC thing. Screaming "racism" has become an excuse to stop people from looking at the real problem(s).

Lynda
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are
to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theordore
Roosevelt, 1918.
----- Original Message ----- From: <DSanner106 AT aol.com>


I worked with President Carter for 11 years, and do like him, he has just
gotten a lot more free with sharing
his thoughts as time goes on. He , as everyone else speaks from his or her
own perspective. He is in his mid eighties and from a much earlier
generation and grew up on a south Georgia peanut farm. For people from that > generation and background, much of what he said is probably true. Generations born
post civil rights movement, in segragated schools, etc etc. don't have
that same perspective and are maddened to think their genuine concerns about > the current bunch are being blown off as mere racism.





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