Mastodawn

I've been listening to Wright Thompson's book The Barn. It's very hard to listen to, and an excellent book.

One thing led to another, and I found this snippet from the writer in an Atlantic article. As a southerner, I cannot tell you how biting and insightful this is.

Source: https://archive.is/91QGh#selection-813.0-824.0

#mississippi #theSouth #wrightThompson #emmettTill

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R.L. Dane

Interesting!

@rl_dane Isn't his point here about the change in who's actually doing the work of agriculture in the south spot on? Yet many southerners cling to a romanticized account of rural life that no longer holds true as it once did.

We cling to a lot of romantic notions, some of them utterly degenerate.

Take all of the Confederacy romanticism, please.

Five years of utterly revolting history, and people romanticize it like it was handed down by angels.

My love/hate relationship with the South is at fever pitch. 😄

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Amin, minor deity of the legume realm

@rl_dane @royal

A rhetoric prof of mine assigns reading Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone speech because he kept getting students who were taught that the civil war was really about states’ rights, not slavery.

I’m glad I only spent one year in the Texas education system. (Not counting uni.)