From: keREM0VEvin_c75@yahMUNGEoo.com.bogus   
      
   On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:20:41 +1200, zeborah@gmail.com (Zeborah) wrote:   
   >White people (on the whole) haven't had so much sandpaper applied to our   
   >skins over the course of our lifetimes as black people (on the whole)   
   >have.   
      
   Actually, it depends on where you're White. Historically White   
   Southerners have endured condescension long before the Civil War and   
   long afterward. Some have played this to their advantage. There was   
   one member of the post-Reconstruction Georgia Legislature who said "A   
   Yankee is worth more than a bale of cotton, and is twice as easy to   
   pick." Then again, back in the 1940s a Northern woman who met a   
   Southerner exclaimed "They're wearing shoes!"   
      
   It gets tiresome. It makes one touchy. Zell Miller of Georgia is   
   *very* touchy about "hillbilly humor" because it making fun, through   
   stereotype, of people from the Appalachias. Being from the lower end   
   of the Appalachias himself, that particular sort of humor has wore   
   thin. From my own unscientific observation, many White Southern males   
   in their teens and early twenties react by flying the Confederate Jack   
   and generally reacting with hostility to the centuries-old prejudice.   
      
   So yes, some Whites are sensitive.   
      
   - Kevin J. Cheek   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)