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I know that most people often forget this what with so much good TV on (DeGrassi and Burn Notice), but February is Black History Month. My personal black history is that in my hometown the high schools are segregated geographically. There was a Black high school, and Rich White Kid high school and a Backwoods Redneck high school. I had friends at all three, but I went to the Black one.

I will be blunt. Racism is something ingrained into your life at a very young age in the South and anyone who says otherwise is too ashamed or just not self-actualized enough to admit it.

The problem with it is like anything else (especially backfat, or imaginary things like alcoholism) –you cannot overcome something unless you admit that it exists. Read more…