Célébrer la Différence

célébrer la différence

Recognition of differences is ingrained in all creatures. In early man if you weren’t family then you were on the menu. Then rose nationalism. We all look alike so THERE. America has been called the great experiment. God threw a bunch of dogs and cats together, they wrote a constitution but forgot to read it.

I spend a lot of time in Utah. I am also a direct descendant of Porter Rockwell which is why the Mormons put up with my Gentile ass. One day I was talking with a Bishop and pointed out that most Mormon kids at the Boys and Girls Club avoided my grandchildren. I told him that I now understood something about those of us under the Cracker Persuasion. I said there were very few black folk in Brigham City, which of course he started telling me all about his black friend, but I corrected him. I’d seen one mixed couple passing through town and I ate lunch with them at the Grist Mill. I told him, “You don’t have no niggers. But, you take some of us, and make us the niggers!” Of course he was offended, but just like the prophet Kris Kristopherson said, “Everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on. Someone to be better than just anytime they please. Someone doing something dirty decent folks can frown on. If you can’t find no body else then help yourself to me!

The south clung to the old days as long as they could. Jim Crow, segregation, the KKK, all in an effort to preserve what they thought was a better way of life. Slowly things began to change and not just because of legislation, but because people of our generation were just damn sick and tired of it. It got in the way! The old ideas handed down just didn’t make any sense in modern Austin.

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