# 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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**Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-ignorant-people-out-there-stop-making-the-south-out-to-be-some-unique-villain/724024/179 "2015-07-03T02:59:26Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.

**You** called her your Mammy.

> [@"Blackish" .. Oh.... REALLY?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackish-oh-really/705873/8):
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> I know that everyone gets sick of hearing it but I was basically raised a small black child by my Mammy and the fact that my parents taught an all black school when I was young. It was all good. The one thing I learned from that is that even the most poor American blacks are genuine people and generally good but their social norms differ greatly from mainstream society because of historical social reasons that aren’t very far out of date. In my experience, other white people that express recreational outrage about these types of things do not know what the are talking about. I could walk into a black church in at least three towns in different areas and be greeted with nothing but hugs and kisses and I don’t even consider myself to be a liberal or even a good person. Could you do something similar with the same results?

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