Thanks for noticing my new Hispanic female bad-ass attorney's win in Congress in southern New Mexico. You guys and Rachel Maddow are the only ones I know who did. New Mexico went all Blue. Our state tourism motto, New Mexico True, should now become New Mexico True Blue.
Did you ever read a book called Bring Me Home? It's about Birmingham. A young well to do woman from there grew up knowing nothing till her professor proposed she write about "her city." She was pretty staggered and wrote this immense book. Her father she found out, was in the Klan, her mother's entire family were genteely aloof, but rich and so, pretty complicit. When the book came out, in some dread she asked her uncle his opinion, expecting him to be hugely offended, but he just said-- if I have it right-- "The Lions Club runs this city, The Rotary OWNS it." !
Well I'm just curious, you know. I was propagandized into being so guilt-ridden because I was a mean yankee and how I shouldn't criticize my in-laws so I got walked all over. But they were just nasty. Took me a long time to realize it. Also, we're the same age so, you know how it is.
I think more understanding. At least that's what it did for me. I guess we're all products of, not just our past, but our parents and grandparents past, too, and even though they did terrible things sometimes, they were doing the best they knew how to do. That's been a hard lesson for me. A word about the Cash book: it's been criticized for not including anything much from a woman's point of view, or a black person's point of view, but Cash was a white Southern man who was trying to make his fellow Southern white men do the right thing. So that's how it's written. He tried so hard to change people's meanness, but he couldn't. I am so grateful to you for wanting to read these! You have a good heart.
I've got those books waiting for me at the library. Are they going to make me feel more generous or less to my neighbors from when I was a tarheel? Just wondering!
Isn't Rick Scott suing his own administration for being crooked right now? I can't follow it actually because of the GOP way of turning a harmless group somewhere into dangerous subversives. So now some voter officials in Broward County are like murderers of the good people of Florida, because of how they keep turning up with more ballots to be counted. Damn them. And so obviously he's had to go to court!
I thank you for your interest Mr. NM. My energy for finding things out is limited now, I have to admit, by the hostility I met with in that region. Yep, it was pretty tough among the housewives. I really like the moth. I've seen those.
I believe they have to be requested by voters in the district covered, and I seem to recall that they can simply say either "vote looks good" or "voting is fucked up". It is then up to the locals to take steps. I am certain I will be corrected, if wrong, by someone who knows the process better.
While federal law sets some parameters, STATE laws govern almost all aspects of elections. I have learned from reading fellow Wonkers' comments that some states (Colorado) make voting very easy. Georgia has made it increasingly hard. It's obviously to disenfranchise the black population. Never underestimate this country's legacy of racism, especially in the South.
Ginger, speaking as a nearly 70 year old Southerner, it's more complicated than that, and WAY too complicated for an internet thread. What I recommend for Yankees who move down here is to please read Killers of the Dream (Lillian Smith), The Mind of the South (W.J.Cash) and any 1 of the numerous slave narrative collections, which are oral histories collected during the Great Depression.
Actually I was trying to remember what I know of Deal which isn't much, I remember a kerfuffle against Gay or trans people and Delta threatening to pull out over it as well as the filming studios.But yes, women like her always think it is about them.
Thanks for noticing my new Hispanic female bad-ass attorney's win in Congress in southern New Mexico. You guys and Rachel Maddow are the only ones I know who did. New Mexico went all Blue. Our state tourism motto, New Mexico True, should now become New Mexico True Blue.
Sorry it's "Carry Me Home." By Diane McWhorter.
That sounds interesting. I'll look for that one at my library. If they don't have it locally, they can do an inter-library loan. Thanks!
Did you ever read a book called Bring Me Home? It's about Birmingham. A young well to do woman from there grew up knowing nothing till her professor proposed she write about "her city." She was pretty staggered and wrote this immense book. Her father she found out, was in the Klan, her mother's entire family were genteely aloof, but rich and so, pretty complicit. When the book came out, in some dread she asked her uncle his opinion, expecting him to be hugely offended, but he just said-- if I have it right-- "The Lions Club runs this city, The Rotary OWNS it." !
Well I'm just curious, you know. I was propagandized into being so guilt-ridden because I was a mean yankee and how I shouldn't criticize my in-laws so I got walked all over. But they were just nasty. Took me a long time to realize it. Also, we're the same age so, you know how it is.
I think more understanding. At least that's what it did for me. I guess we're all products of, not just our past, but our parents and grandparents past, too, and even though they did terrible things sometimes, they were doing the best they knew how to do. That's been a hard lesson for me. A word about the Cash book: it's been criticized for not including anything much from a woman's point of view, or a black person's point of view, but Cash was a white Southern man who was trying to make his fellow Southern white men do the right thing. So that's how it's written. He tried so hard to change people's meanness, but he couldn't. I am so grateful to you for wanting to read these! You have a good heart.
I've got those books waiting for me at the library. Are they going to make me feel more generous or less to my neighbors from when I was a tarheel? Just wondering!
Isn't Rick Scott suing his own administration for being crooked right now? I can't follow it actually because of the GOP way of turning a harmless group somewhere into dangerous subversives. So now some voter officials in Broward County are like murderers of the good people of Florida, because of how they keep turning up with more ballots to be counted. Damn them. And so obviously he's had to go to court!
I thank you for your interest Mr. NM. My energy for finding things out is limited now, I have to admit, by the hostility I met with in that region. Yep, it was pretty tough among the housewives. I really like the moth. I've seen those.
I believe they have to be requested by voters in the district covered, and I seem to recall that they can simply say either "vote looks good" or "voting is fucked up". It is then up to the locals to take steps. I am certain I will be corrected, if wrong, by someone who knows the process better.
And a lawyer, to boot. How dare she.
If there is a runoff, can we get some UN observers?
While federal law sets some parameters, STATE laws govern almost all aspects of elections. I have learned from reading fellow Wonkers' comments that some states (Colorado) make voting very easy. Georgia has made it increasingly hard. It's obviously to disenfranchise the black population. Never underestimate this country's legacy of racism, especially in the South.
Ginger, speaking as a nearly 70 year old Southerner, it's more complicated than that, and WAY too complicated for an internet thread. What I recommend for Yankees who move down here is to please read Killers of the Dream (Lillian Smith), The Mind of the South (W.J.Cash) and any 1 of the numerous slave narrative collections, which are oral histories collected during the Great Depression.
Many people have, but as with Kavanaugh, the new tactic is 'la la la cant hear you'.
Actually I was trying to remember what I know of Deal which isn't much, I remember a kerfuffle against Gay or trans people and Delta threatening to pull out over it as well as the filming studios.But yes, women like her always think it is about them.