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I'm Mad As Hell...
Nov. 12th, 2008 10:05 am...and I'm not gonna take it any more.
Everybody can just STOP TALKING SMACK ABOUT THE SOUTH ANY DAY NOW.
( this cut may contain profanity, foaming at mouth )
And now I'm just going to pause and tell you about my grandfather, because people can surprise you. Except for a stint in the army, served in Germany, my grandfather has essentially never been out of Alabama. He's from one of those dirt-poor, very red, full of racists counties, brought up well before the Civil Rights movement. I have heard him toss out the n-word without a thought. He will say to anyone who dares broach the issue with him, "Look, if you don't want gay marriage don't marry a gay person, but it's not your business who they marry." He's a huge Obama fan, who's absolutely thrilled about his election, and I would love to buy him Obama's memoir for Christmas, I think he'd really like that, except his eyesight's going and he can't read any more and he doesn't know how to work a CD player to listen to the audio book and now I'm crying, great.
I would like this entry to contain reason and sense-making, but it's just not happening. If you think the South is inferior and backwards and racist and you and want to come in here and argue with me about why or point and laugh at me for trying to say otherwise, please just...don't. I can't take any more of it today.
Everybody can just STOP TALKING SMACK ABOUT THE SOUTH ANY DAY NOW.
( this cut may contain profanity, foaming at mouth )
And now I'm just going to pause and tell you about my grandfather, because people can surprise you. Except for a stint in the army, served in Germany, my grandfather has essentially never been out of Alabama. He's from one of those dirt-poor, very red, full of racists counties, brought up well before the Civil Rights movement. I have heard him toss out the n-word without a thought. He will say to anyone who dares broach the issue with him, "Look, if you don't want gay marriage don't marry a gay person, but it's not your business who they marry." He's a huge Obama fan, who's absolutely thrilled about his election, and I would love to buy him Obama's memoir for Christmas, I think he'd really like that, except his eyesight's going and he can't read any more and he doesn't know how to work a CD player to listen to the audio book and now I'm crying, great.
I would like this entry to contain reason and sense-making, but it's just not happening. If you think the South is inferior and backwards and racist and you and want to come in here and argue with me about why or point and laugh at me for trying to say otherwise, please just...don't. I can't take any more of it today.
