I saw the best show on PBS last night about the Freedom Riders and how they went into Alabama Greyhound Bus Stations with 20 or 30 black and white men and women and 300 to 3000 KKK would show up and beat them, burn the bus', throw things at them, spit on them, call them N#**rs. The Governor and Police were allowing it. Kennedy's sent a guy down and even he got beat at one of these mobs. Even women in Alabama were showing up in their hoods yelling kill those N(*)#$rs. Then Alabama police escort them to Mississippi and it got even worse.
This was the majority of the residents, the police and governor of 2 red neck hillbilly states. I bet those were all good christians too.
And this was just 50 years ago. Now today we have to deal with these red necks through their representatives. Ever since the GOP used the Southern Strategy & the Moral Majority move they have the deep dirty south locked up with wedge issues like god, gays, guns & racism. And today are they any better? These are the tea baggers tea bagging our country. Ignorant. When was the civil war 1860's? That wasn't too long ago either.
By the way, this was a huge embarrassment for the USA all over the world. Ever notice whenever we are really embarrassed with the rest of the world is when a Southerner is running things? Bush a Texas man invaded Iraq.
Anyways, to black people, I am sorry for how America has treated you and how it continues to treat you. I get it. We have to remember that the KKK is still alive in the deep dirty south. AKA Red states. Backwood, inbred, red neck racist hicks. Southerners.
I wonder what percentage of whites in Alabama and Mississippi were racist in 1960 and what that percentage is today. I know we aren't perfect up here in the north but at least we don't have this history. Oh yea and these people say they live in the "bible" belt. I bet they went to lynchings on Saturday's and church on Sunday's.
As you do the same thing back by calling them rednecks, hicks and inbreds.
The reason they had to marry their distant cousins was to keep their land in the family.
Property Laws made by the very same Democrats who made the Jim Crow Laws.
The laws have been changed since then and they no longer are forced to do this. Yet the lefty racists still call them inbreds.
Sure that's why they did it goober.
I won't tell anyone your wife and sister are the same person
You really should read up on the history of that.
Albert Einstein married his first cousin. And so did Charles Darwin, who had exceptional children.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest serving US president in history married his cousin (not a first cousin, however they shared the same last name).
Facts about cousin marriage | Cousin Marriage Resources