It bugs me that some people seem to want to always jump on MS for the "race issues."
Sure, we had our share of racial incidents, but every state in the union has at some point in time.
I grew up in the state and attended school there from 1st grade to 6th grade (when we were integrated) to graduation in 1974. I had many great friends during that time who were black an I still have great friends who are black. Blacks and whites seemed to always get along well enough. Fights and arguments were no more between them than they were between whites alone.
My family had black people as friends and many times they came to our house and we to theirs. Black and whites seem to get along just fine in the small southern MS town I grew up in.
But anyway, just had to jump in and defend a state that I love. Mississippi has got a bad rap, but it has never been just all about Mississippi and race, though a few make it out to be.
Lacy, I mean no disrespect when i say this, but i can pretty much garentee, that everyone reading your comments above are giggling....
MS had its share of racial issues...BUT so did every other state?
that is kind of like saying that Birminghamd AL. Church had a firecracker go off in it!
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Lacy, I mean no disrespect when i say this, but i can pretty much garentee, that everyone reading your comments above are giggling....
MS had its share of racial issues...BUT so did every other state?
that is kind of like saying that Birminghamd AL. Church had a firecracker go off in it!
Lol....yes, I was giggling!
When we lived in Jackson, MS there was a full page ad run in the Sunday paper that said "The South Will Rise Again"......they can't let it go. This was in the 80's.
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I agree otherwise we'll end up with too many holidays that most people don't celebrate or commerate anyways.
I'm surprised we don't have a ceaser Chavez day and some type of day to remember the native Indians and a day for stonewall in the future- you get the idea
I get 3 Native American holidays off w/pay, I work at the reservation out here.:biggrin:
Nope ain't happening. I like what we have here in our little town. I remember going to shopping centers when I was younger. That is big enough for me.
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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
It bugs me that some people seem to want to always jump on MS for the "race issues."
Sure, we had our share of racial incidents, but every state in the union has at some point in time.
I grew up in the state and attended school there from 1st grade to 6th grade (when we were integrated) to graduation in 1974. I had many great friends during that time who were black an I still have great friends who are black. Blacks and whites seemed to always get along well enough. Fights and arguments were no more between them than they were between whites alone.
My family had black people as friends and many times they came to our house and we to theirs. Black and whites seem to get along just fine in the small southern MS town I grew up in.
But anyway, just had to jump in and defend a state that I love. Mississippi has got a bad rap, but it has never been just all about Mississippi and race, though a few make it out to be.
I was just speaking of the experiences I had as a child visiting there at the time. My mom was born and raised in Mississippi and I loved going there to see our relatives. It was just so different than Dallas, TX. where I grew up. I was not trying to make it seem that Mississippi was more racist then any other state. I saw things that still haunt me to this day.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Really??? they have reservations out there??
I know they have the casino there and also the ones up above Fresno in the mountains but didn't know they were near a reservation. when i think of a reservation i think of the ones I've driven past in Arizona and New Mexico. it was very depressing.run down trailers, beer cans everywhere, rusted cars,etc
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