Images like this:
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And scenes like this. Oh, sorry, not that one.
This one @4:14.
Sins may be forgiven, but never forgotten.
Cheers.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Southern Hospitality
What do I think of when I hear the phrase "Southern Hospitality"?
Images like this:
And scenes like this. Oh, sorry, not that one.
This one @4:14.
Sins may be forgiven, but never forgotten.
Cheers.
Images like this:
And scenes like this. Oh, sorry, not that one.
This one @4:14.
Sins may be forgiven, but never forgotten.
Cheers.
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the image give me some lol'd xD +follow, followme ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat's your damage little boy? That's to the first commenter not to you Henry. My comment to you is thank you, I was feeling too happy. Let's not forget that America is the land where all white men are created equal. Those were some very, very bad times, and I hope one day we can move past them. I'd like to say we have, but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteyea really wtf is with that first commnet
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's fair to coin together a positive term in the present, with some bad that happens to come from the same area. And I say this as someone who has experienced the painful psychological whip of prejudice. When I think southern hospitality I think of the people who treated me with more decency and respect when I visited the southern U.S. than the people from my own land. I won't put them together with their ancestors, or with the people who to this day are narrow minded enough to put the decent ones to shame.
ReplyDeleteSouthern hospitality makes me think of big front porches and lemonade.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear the term Southern Hospitality I always think of the two hillbillies from Deleverence. Then I think of the same things as you.
ReplyDelete@terminal-b: Well, you seem to be an asshole. No follow for you.
ReplyDelete@Mark: We're moving, slowly.
@Baur: *comment
@D4: Ah, but it isn't a "positive term in the present". The term dates all the way back to pre-Abolition times. White gentlemen would courteously welcome white guests even while the slave black men toiled in the fields and some slave black woman brought out cool glasses of lemonade.
I'll grant you I don't believe the sins of the father should be visited on the son, but I still think of this when I hear the term used today.
@Heaven: Ha, who served the lemonade?
@Bersercules: Ha, that didn't come to my mind, but it fits.
I also think of the Yeil Young song souther man!
ReplyDeleteI knew the term dated back, I just meant that in present day it defines something nicer. Granted, some people will feel the burn from a negative experience and won't be able to surpass that. Words, phrases and ideas change through time, though. Basically, something that was, isn't necessarily still so. And I get that it's what you think of, I just find it a little sad that the first thing that comes to mind is negative.
ReplyDelete@Bersercules: Haha, good thing YouTube knew what you were talking about because I didn't.
ReplyDelete@D4: You are correct. The stain won't rub off though. Personally, I have been pretty fortunate. Virginia is a part of the South but I live in the bubble of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, where the vestiges of racism have faded even more than in the rest of the state.