re: #722 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

California.

So did my parents, 1967, southern CA suburbs. When they moved here from segregated back east in 1964, there were still “no blacks” signs in rentals.

My parents, my family, the Black family in Houston suburb, we are by no means the first who went through this, nor the last, nor was it the last time my family would have to deal with them.

Point is, it’s rough all over. The south deserves every bit of derision they get for their behavior. But they are by no means the only ones with that kind of history. It’s just that theirs made the news.

But didn’t it “make the news” for a reason? Maybe because it was just so unbelivably bad in the south that the rest of the country, although also racist, said “Wait, that has to stop. It’s so bad even we can’t take it.”