Christopher Dickey: The Mind of the South

This was a very pro Obama series of videos. Once again Newsweek shows which canidate it is endorsing. So much for unbiased reporting.

Conrack for president!

The South is not Georgia or Atlanta, GA. Wish this article had covered more territory an reflected the true diversity of the region. Speaking as though Georgia represents North Carolina is like comparing Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

The problem is simple corruption needs to be erradicated beginning with those who have profited for years from corruption. Please look up this individual ---- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich ---- he was the father in law of Mr. Rockefeller who's family went on to controll the private banks which became the central bank the FED which is a private institution. This individual Nelson came up with the Income Tax and The Central Bank. Follow the money and you will find the corruption behind the problems in society. For 240.00 the Central Bank the Fed can create 1 million dollars then using the IRS they can bilk the public for 1 Million plus interest. Its easy math to see they have the complete control of the US government and even the world. Money is the root of all evil.

Interesting comment, "Dent Myers is a sick person." No, Dent Myers is honest and forthright in telling what he believes and he has a thriving business. He just has a different point of view, but provides for the curious a shop of "stuff" that has its place in history. Historical revisionists have changed much of what is taught in schools today in regard to the "war of northern aggression." The South as a region of this country is not simplistic, stupid, or easily understood. The majority of those deeply rooted in the south are very decent, lawabiding, hardworking people who by their very nature have to wonder about an outsider's perspective on who and what they are.

I have lived all over the United States from the time I was a child. I still hold fast to my 10+ generational roots in the deep south. It's the basis of who I am.

Interesting comment, "Dent Myers is a sick person." No, Dent Myers is honest and forthright in telling what he believes and he has a thriving business. He just has a different point of view, but provides for the curious a shop of "stuff" that has its place in history. Historical revisionists have changed much of what is taught in schools today in regard to the "war of northern aggression." The South as a region of this country is not simplistic, stupid, or easily understood. The majority of those deeply rooted in the south are very decent, lawabiding, hardworking people who by their very nature have to wonder about an outsider's perspective on who and what they are.

I have lived all over the United States from the time I was a child. I still hold fast to my 10+ generational roots in the deep south. It's the basis of who I am.

I contributed to the "Foxfire" series of books about the people who live in the hills of Appalachia. Look them up on Amazon, Mr. Dickey. These people Scotch-Irish and Cherokee people pretty much still lived as the pioneers did, hunting, small farms, building their own houses from trees, building their own furniture,

They were NOT the inbred degenerates your father made a fortune off of by libeling them in "Deliverance". But the truth would not be as titillating and profitable, would it?

I see there are still some family traditions alive and well. Many, most, people in the South have moved on. Isn't it time you did also? Words matter and, like your father, your words hurt real people. Your portrayal is almost as titillating and wrong as your father's was.

An interesting take and response from a verity of folks and their thinking. Per say ,racism does exist but not in the open form as was inherent before the 60s and after the laws were changed. What is in the hearts and minds of the indocrinated, misled and the gullible is innate as what the hierarchy of the system advocate. Racism is much more systematic and institutional rather then individual. The County Commissioners, Board of Supervisors, the Court System, the DA's and Solicitors Office, the Law and the Legislature all tend to be hard core republicans that belive in and practice the prevresity of inequality and rights only of their kind.
Unfortuantely in the last 8 years since George W. Bush took over, the South in General and particular areas where conservative republicans and their status quo perdominates the trend is to race, ethnic origin, color of skin based.

Atlanta inner city itself is not gun ho conservative republican, but the surrounding countries are. The worst are Cobb, Cherokee, Hall and all further away from Atlanta. Even North Fulton conservative republicans feel threatened by the Atlanta black majority hierarchy. The White Conservative republicans feel that the black Atlanta hierarchy is mismangaing the taxpayers money etc. The trend is just not around Atlanta, but through out the South. Racism is not open as it used to be but rather collective communial, systematic and institutional.

I was raised in Texas, spent 20 years as an officer in the Marine Corps, live in California, raised a daughter, who is an honor graduate of UC Berkeley, with my wife who is Japanese, and now I am a 7th grade math teacher. Yes there is racism in our country but I do see things changing with time. I am for any reporting that brings our country together as one nation and does not split us apart again, and again, and again.

I was born, raised and live in SC. Believe it or not, we don't walk around in confederate grey, and praise Robert E. Lee 24/7. Unfortunately, racism is everywhere and not just the south. It certainly doesn't make me racist if I choose to vote Republican!