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I think what got my attention was his claim that he was black, very conservative, and raised in a small town in Louisiana. If he were black, he'd know that the reason that his family might be against him dating a white girl is because in the small-town South, a black guy dating a white girl is even today putting his life into his own hands. He and his family would know without a doubt that someday he might wind up dead and the local (nearly always white) authorities would just claim it was another example of black-on-black violence. That's the way it is in the deepest parts of the Deep South.
Yep, that's basically how I saw it. It's not like he's never heard of Emmitt Till. Then again, he's not really well versed in his civil rights history. This is the part I like:
I grew up in Central Louisiana and I have a nunber of relatives that have disowned me for marrying a white girl.
He doesn't really realize that they didn't disown him for marrying a white person, they disowned him for pretty much taking a dump on their perception of race. if he'd married a Chinese girl, I doubt an eye would have been batted. But a white girl? 40 years ago there were still enough people in the South who would have called that grounds for a lynching. And yet, he's completely oblivious to how they would perceive such a relationship given Louisiana's history of racism. As such, his claim he's black and from a small town in Louisiana is highly unlikely.
As I've read his posts, I've come to the conclusion vthat at best he's some white college kid trying to prove he's black by being simply a contrarian. At worst, he's actually a self hating black guy who grew up far away from Louisiana. He's somewhere in his 40s (as per his posts) and yet he doesn't understand why black people in the South would have a problem with him marrying a white person? Yer stretchin' mate.
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