# To all the ignorant people out there - stop making the South out to be some unique villain.

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**Created:** [July 2, 2015, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ignorant-people-out-there-stop-making-the-south-out-to-be-some-unique-villain/724024 "2015-07-02T04:59:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ignorant-people-out-there-stop-making-the-south-out-to-be-some-unique-villain/724024/171 "2015-07-03T02:08:16Z")

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> [@splatterpunk](#):
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> He didn’t say that. No one has said that. He’s speaking to those (the OP included), who insist that life for black folks was hunky dory prior to the great Northern Aggression. The OP knows this for a fact, because he had his own Black Mammy, and she was perfectly happy with her lot in life. Just ask **Shaggy**.

I never said that in the least. As a matter of fact, I said the opposite many times. The repeated use of the word Mammy is a very offensive slur to someone that helped raise me from a baby and I loved very much. Her name was Lola and she was like a surrogate mother to me from a toddler all the way through high school. I will have to kindly ask one time only that you do not ever and I mean NEVER again use slurs against my effective family ever again in your lifetime. I loved her with all my heart as and I resent the vapid Gone With the Wind references to something you know nothing about.

> [@splatterpunk](#):
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> What the fuck this has to do with anything is a mystery to me.

I know it is confusing going through life not understanding much of anything and you have my sympathy for it. It isn’t your fault even if the point is obvious to others.

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