and say shit like “cousin marrying ignorant hillbillies” you’re being really classist and honestly, trying to make yourself look good by trying to act like southerners are the only racist ones just makes the whole thing extra shitty.
Yr smug hatred of country music (which is deeply and intimately linked with blues, gospel and jazz influenced bluegrass) is ignorant. Being smug and acting like you’re better for coming from above the Mason-Dixon and having gone to college, doesn’t mean you’re not a racist. You are just as capable of being a murderous, racist piece of shit.
Racism is more overt in the south and more covert in the north, but there’s just about as much horrible shit up here, we’re just better at hiding it under a veneer of color blind bs.
I agree with almost all of this but it’s honestly an insult to blues, gospel and jazz to say that modern country music, which is what gets made fun of, is heavily influenced by any of those genres. Real country music may have had roots in those genres but “country music” today is not something than can or should be defended. The country music industry is rife with racist BS among other BS so yeah I’m gonna go ahead and keep making fun of it.
And tbh I don’t really care about white people making fun of racist white people. Whatever. Boo hoo. That said, I’d say racism in the North is potentially more dangerous simply because it is so insidious. We (northern whites) are the last ones who would ever admit even to ourselves that racism is deeply ingrained in us or that we are deeply ingrained in and benefit from a racist system. We’re just as racist, we just figured out how to “get away with it” and make it next to impossible for anyone to call us out.
Wasn’t defending modern mainstream country, and my point is about using classism to cover up one’s own racism and ascribe it to a more vulnerable group of white people.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 