Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Heritage and Hate: Mississippi’s State Flag" video.

It was nice that Kumar (lol) gave a fair representation of Mississippi (I am from there originally) but I can't help but disagree with the notion that it was an entirely collaborative effort between whites and blacks in rebuilding the state. Remember, now, MS was the state that they had to call the National Guard in because blacks were finally beginning to be allowed to go to school at Ole Miss (the University of Mississippi) by forced integration. They resisted Civil Rights as much as, maybe even more than, any other state that was also forcibly being integrated. My Mom attended college there a few years after that happened, not sure what her experience was as far as racism is concerned, but even when I was growing up blacks and whites sort of just kind of seemed to avoid each other FOR THE MOST PART but classes and everything were all integrated. It was just a cultural difference. Whites and blacks were occasionally friends but that was the exception, not the rule. That's not to say that anyone there is truly racist in the sense that they truly hate each other (if anything the blacks are just as racist as the whites are in MS) but there's a lot of middle class white boys who emulate their fathers and grandfathers and still complain from time to time about black people. I would never associate with anybody like that, though, and most people I knew were the same way.
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