More on the Phil Robertson flap...
In addition to his comments about homosexuality, Robertson also spoke about race and growing up in Louisiana before the civil rights era.
"I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once," he told GQ. "Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field. ... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people' -- not a word!
"Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues," GQ quoted Robertson as saying.
Ah, antebellum myths..
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So apparently personal experience can't possibly be true if it conflicts with your worldview.....
Apparently Robertson never turned on his TV or read newspapers during the 1960s. White cops in Alabama turned fire hoses and sicced dogs on black civil rights demonstrators on national TV. Whites lynched black boys for the crime of looking at white girls. The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on black people's lawns. And this is still going on! A guy in Alabama pleaded guilty to a cross burning just 10 days ago!
Robertson is either just lying, or he's completely oblivious to the casual racism that blacks constantly suffered during the 1960s.
And is it really surprising that blacks he personally knew never criticized whites to his face? In the 1960s blacks had to be extremely careful about what they said. Being "uppity" was a first-class ticket to Painsville.
To survive in the South a black man had to know his place, watch his mouth and keep his eyes down. Even today young black men have to act that way with cops to avoid getting arrested ... or worse.
And none of that is either disputed by what he said, nor does it dispute what he said.
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