Are Mississippians
Are Mississippians really as, have got to say it, as horrid as portrayed in this film? I mean the upper class ones like the Judges, and rich people?
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I'm from Mississippi, and it is not that bad. I mean, I'm biracial, and people can tell. Especially when I was younger. And I mostly had white friends, growing up. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are some mean horrible people as portayed in the movie. But I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi...the airport shone in the movie, I have been there mutiple times. And I've never seen the bad side of Mississippi, like the horrible Hollywood portrayed Mississippi.
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I have lived in Mississippi and Georgia for most of my life, and I have to say that while problems exist, most people in Mississippi are not racists. Unless you search for them, usually you won't find those people. In fact, most young people have close friends being black and white, as is the case with my friends and I. As people would say, the future is in the youth, and if this is the case, you would find that the young of mississippi are very open to anyone of every color.
The most important reason is education. If you don't shy away from bad aspects of your past, you can learn from them.
I have to disagree based on my personal experience. As a non-southerner with southern relatives, I ended up going to collage in the south. Before I went to school, I was under the assumption that "you would have to look" for the racists. But sadly, it just seemed like there were so many people I met in many different situations that were casual and open racists. It got to the point were I felt like i couldn't really trust someone wasn't a racist until I had really gotten to know them, because many people I would meet and begin to become friends with would later just pop out with the "N" word. One time someone who I had decided to be my roommate and had known for 2 years, and someone who was an active vocal Christian, her mother was visiting (from deep southern Georgia, very wealthy), and I was in the kitchen while they watched tv and discussed the "n..." quarterback. It was disgusting. And the scene at the "club" where the old white people are saying humiliating things and don't even pay attention to the fact that an african american server is standing there, I saw several times a very simiar scene with my own family. Not all of them, but some and the huge commotion of everyone telling the person to keep their voice down, but no one saying how it was just plain hateful and unchristian to say those things. Yes there is a huge amount of people in the south who are actively fighting racism in their community and in themselves, but from my experience what you saw in the movie wasn't far fetched at all in the community it was shown in.
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