Last week, we showed you a clip from the Bill Maher show that featured a matter-of-fact interview with blacks in the welfare line. Since the video showed a little too much black reality, you just knew that Maher had to make amends by showing Southerners in the most stereotypical light imaginable.
To say that the reporter didn’t purposefully seek out toothless people that lived in shacks is an obvious lie. There are many well educated and well spoken folks in Mississippi they could have chosen from.
Even so, both sets of my grandparents, thank God, were born in Mississippi. My father’s side came from Corinth, site of the famous Civil War battle, while my mother’s side came from the tiny town of Pontotoc. They later moved to Memphis to find work, then settled down and started families. Then came my mother and father. Eventually, there was me.
The point is, I am very proud to have Mississippi as part of my blood. Being familiar with both, I’d just as soon be on a dirt road in Mississippi than in a posh hotel overlooking Times Square.
Mississippians are good people. It’s a fine state that still features the Confederate battle flag as part of its official state flag. And even though Bill Maher purposefully sought out inarticulate subjects, I certainly feel as though each of the men interviewed in that segment probably have more common sense, decency, values, and work ethic than those in the panel gathered around Maher’s table.
Maher is not better than the people he mocks. In fact, the exact opposite is true.
Irrational hatred of White Southerners is nothing new, of course, which is why The Political Cesspool Radio Program is happy to do our part to counter the trend each April during our exclusive Confederate History Month series.
April is coming up right around the corner, so be sure to stay tuned to TPC as we prepare to celebrate the great and glorious Southern culture with facts and stories about the heroes who brought it to life!
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