We all know about gender and race and age discrimination but Edwards fell prey to an untalked about discrimination.
Southerner discrimination. I am a southerner so it doesn't work with me but I heard 100s of bright well meaning pundits and reporters write off Edwards as a serious candidate because he was a southerner. They didn't say that but it was clear to me. His accent, his charm, his genteel nature. They had an instinctive dislike for it. I love the Turks but they have always been brutal to the South (especially Jill and Cenk).
It was fascinating to watch Cenk and others all the sudden realize how right Edwards was about so much right before he dropped out because pundits and media refused to take him seriously. I believe this was because they wrote him off as some dumbass cracker hillbilly. Then the more they followed things the more they realized they had screwed up.
I say all the time if Einstein had been form Mississippi you would never have heard of the Theory of Relativity. He would have come up with it but no one would have taken him seriously. Which is just ignorant. William Faulkner was from Mississippi. Tennessee Williams was a southerner. Harper Lee. Eisenhower and Nimitz. I could do this all day.
You totally get southerners. I take it all back.
Unless you're gay, then get ready to feel the embossed cross on my Dale Sr. signed lug wrench upside your latte sipping ass while you bleed to death between the double wides to the tinny sound of Hank, Sr.
Educated piece of shit.
Step 1) Take everything I said about Southerners and translate it into black people.
Step 2) Now take all the stereotypes we have thrown around about southerners and translate them into thier black counterpart
Step 3) Ask your question about black people
How many times have you heard some white guy say, "I know its a stereotype but its true about black people (being criminals/not having jobs/having babies out of wedlock/liking fried chicken/having various grotesque physical features)? Did you feel those people were making a compelling argument?
Look, the point is are some Southerners idiots? Do some love Nascar and drink too much beer and have a poor understanding of America, its governmental system and ideals? Do some wear wifebeaters and have mullets and beat their wives? Sure. Does John Edwards? Does he deserve to be painted with that brush? That is how bigotry works.
And I don't think you are a bigot at all. Just making a point.
I think there are bigotries we shine a white hot spotlight on and they whither and weaken (black) and some we acknowledge and they slip in the shadows but remain fairly strong (women, Mexicans) and those we completely ignore and those remain the same or even grow in power (Southerners in this case)
