In class were looking at the regions of the country in 1815 and in order to engage the students I asked if any had ever visited the South. One student said he had been to Texas so I asked if people were different there. In other classes I had responses about how polite people were and such. This young man said, “There are only white people.” In Texas? He himself was black visiting family who had move there from California. I am not sure why all the black people were hiding from him.
When I was there last we had a problem with our rental car. The manager who helped us was black. I remember, not because he was black, but because we had a good discussion about politics. The time-share we stayed in had a black family right across from us. I am not sure what Texas he was visiting. That doesn’t even get into the large Latino population.
But you heard it first here, from my class: There are only white people in Texas.
homo unius libri
If that were only true, it should be a good place to move. Then again, maybe Texas blacks have more sense than northern blacks.
ReplyDeleteThe most common response I got, even from black students, was that everyone in the south was more polite.
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Thank you very much (I'm a Virginian transplanted to Georgia).
ReplyDeleteSome truth only hurts those to whom it does not apply.
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Wait until he finds out about "North Dakota".
ReplyDeleteWhisper that.
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