Yes! This makes so much sense to me. It was always a little shocking to me how much my Southern grandmother resented Reconstruction, despite the fact that she didn't experience it directly. I think through a combination of the deprivation she experienced herself during the Depression combined with stories from her grandparents crystallized that as a "evil" time period to her.
It will take generations of "non-white supremacist America" for the African American community to be engaged. This is why it doesn't surprise me at all that our first African American president has a different background.
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Date: 2009-11-20 03:29 pm (UTC)It will take generations of "non-white supremacist America" for the African American community to be engaged. This is why it doesn't surprise me at all that our first African American president has a different background.