What state do you live and work in?

[Guest]

Columbia

I write workplace sups for Colonial, ( www.coloniallife.com )which has their HQ there. Good company, nice people. They want me to go there in the fall for a series of meetings. I'm told it's a nice city.

Last time I was in SC, Lester Maddox was the gov. I drove real fast through the state to keep from being hit by one of his ax handles! It was not a place where a Jew or black (afro-american?) or anyone not 'southern' i.e. from NY or NJ would want to spend any time if they didn't have to.

Al

 

[johnrocks]

west monroe louisiana senior sales

 

[somarco]

Al -

Lester was never Gov of SC.

 

[Zydo]

He was close....Georgia is close to SC. lol

I'm amazed at the sterotypical vein in this thread.

 

[Alsky]

I write workplace sups for Colonial, ( www.coloniallife.com )which has their HQ there. Good company, nice people. They want me to go there in the fall for a series of meetings. I'm told it's a nice city.

Last time I was in SC, Lester Maddox was the gov. I drove real fast through the state to keep from being hit by one of his ax handles! It was not a place where a Jew or black (afro-american?) or anyone not 'southern' i.e. from NY or NJ would want to spend any time if they didn't have to.

Al

Columbia is a nice city and things have definitely changed. I run into as many people from Jersey, NY, Philly, Boston, Fla, and etc. as I do the Columbia natives... although the pace is much slower than I am used to, the people are friendly and like I said in an earlier post, the weather is great! 78 today and in the 80's the next coulple of days. Oh yea, and for the most part, no hurricanes.

 

[Guest]

He was close....Georgia is close to SC. lol

I'm amazed at the sterotypical vein in this thread.

You preach to me, I'll preach to you.

Georgia, SC, Mississippi, Alabama... back then there was no difference. I was born in the 40s, grew up in the 50s and went to U. of Virginia in the 60s and saw a lot of stuff that you 'kids' only read about today (and that's a good thing... my generation at least counted for something besides dope and really good music!).

I traveled widely throughout the South of the early 60s and as a result I make no apology for my distain of your parents and your grandparents who lived in the deep South of the 40s, 50s and 60s. The deep South has lynching, murder, and institutionalized (de jure as well as de facto) discrimination to atone for. From Orvile Forbus, to George Wallace, to Lester Maddox, to hundreds of thousands of citizens of the South who supported these people, I say that if the sterotype fits... then it needs to be recognized for what it is. These men did not assume power by military coup. They were duly elected by the citizens who were allowed to vote at the time... and we know who those citizens were.

So please don't preach to me about a stereotype. It was real. I rode segregated buses and attended a (de facto) segregated university, and I remember 'white only' bathrooms and water fountains, and I knew families who's children were abducted and never seen again. I was at the famous march in DC where MLK gave 'the speech." I was there. I taught in a newly integrated school (King George, VA) and remember the anger and hatred of the white parents.

Stereotype? No. There was no stereotype. It was real. And all those in their 70s and 80s and 90s today who say "I wasn't that bad" are hoping to re-write history. If you were there... you would know.. it WAS that bad.

I was there. and you were probably not. But just in case you were and if you want to defend Mattox et. al., bring it on. You have the right guy to bring it to... because.... I was there.


Al

 

[vanquishV12]

Hello to all.

GREAT FORUM!! GREAT INFO. GREAT HUMOR I'M FROM OREGON AND JUST STARTED ON MY ONLINE H&LCOURSE.

ANYBODY FROM OR?

VITALIY.

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[Alston]

I'm from Connecticut. I specialize in individual health insurance.

 

[Invain15]

GA, I am strictly Ind Health.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I live in Ohio.

I write in Ohio and Pennsylvania for health. About 10 states for life.

Right now, I am in a hotel in Richmond, Va. I notice they have smoking areas in Virginia restaurants. I guess I'm used to the smoking ban in Ohio.