[Rhonda25882]

Anyone old enough to vividly remember the images of the Civil Rights Movement in this country knows that the film and media images are not far off in their portrayal of Southern men as evil and dangerous. I remember photographic images of white men – huge crowds of them – crowded around the corpses of black men who had been lynched. They traveled for miles to attend lynchings, even bringing their wives and children. They took “souvenirs” – digits, an ear, even male sexual organs. The men you see spraying black men, women and children with firehoses are Southern white men. The men you see dressed in their cowardly KKK costumes, who lynched black men, raped and sexually assaulted black women and girls, burned down homes, bombed churches and created fear in the hearts of my people were white Southern men. The pictures and television images of little black children, some as young as six, who were jeered at, cursed at, had objects thrown at them and had to be protected by the National Guard – the majority of the people commiting such shameful, hateful acts were Southern white men. So it would appear to me that the image of the ‘evil, dangerous’ Southern white man was an image that was rightfully earned. If you don’t believe me, read the book “Black Like Me,” written by a white man who took drugs to darken his skin so that he could pass as a black man and experience for himself just what it felt like to be a black man living in the deep South. I believe that even today, the majority are evil and dangerous, because I think that kind of hate does not die out in one or two generations.

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Name : Rhonda25882, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Lutheran, Age : 43, City : Laurelton, State : NY, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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