Stripper raped in Gastonia NC

shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
Patrol officers say they caught a Gastonia man raping an exotic dancer in the back of a car in Cleveland County. The incident happened Dec. 21 in a church parking lot, according to investigators.



James Edward Locust has been charged with first-degree rape. According to investigators, another man witnessed the incident and reported it to officers who were passing by.



Here's what detectives say happened: Locust was at Leather & Lace in Gastonia on Dec. 20, a Saturday. He knew one of the dancers and agreed to give her a ride home after midnight, early Sunday morning.



Locust was intoxicated so he called a friend to give him and the 31-year-old dancer a ride home.

Investigators said that the agreement was that both Locust and the woman would go to their own homes, hers in Bessemer City and his in Gastonia.

While Locust's friend was driving, the dancer passed out from using drugs and alcohol, according to a detective with the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office. Locust started touching the woman and tried to take off her pants, investigators said.



The driver reportedly encouraged Locust to stop assaulting the woman several times. The man became so distraught that he got lost and pulled into a church parking lot on Oak Grove Road in Cleveland County around 1 a.m., according to the detective.

Officers who had been conducting a license check nearby drove down Oak Grove Road and saw the man outside of his car.

The man was sobbing and told police that Locust was raping a woman in his car. Officers opened the car door and saw Locust raping the unconscious woman, the detective said. Locust was detained, and officers had to aggressively work to revive the woman.


A warrant for Locust's arrest was issued Dec. 23, and he was arrested in Gaston County over the weekend.

Locust, 43, of South Willow Street, has prior convictions in North Carolina but none for violent crimes, according to the N.C. Department of Correction website. He has been convicted three times for DWI. Two of those convictions were this year. The other was nearly a decade ago.

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SlickSpic
11 years ago
Ina church parking lot? What the fuck was the driver thinking?
georgmicrodong
11 years ago
Wrap some rusty barbed wire around a poke and above it up his ass.
ilbbaicnl
11 years ago
On the bright side, I would have expected cops in a backwater Southern town to think a woman was "asking for it" if she was a stripper and/or intoxicated and/or accepting rides with dirtbags. Hopefully this means that LE no longer consider strippers to be in a rape free-fire zone.
skibum609
11 years ago
In NYC the cops, being Progressive minded, would have joined in with the rapist.
sharkhunter
11 years ago
If the guy had been more forceful, he could have told his friend to cut it out or he would have to walk home. Then if he didn't, remove him by force. Of course if his friend had waited acting like he would take her home and take good care of her. He might have believed it.

The lesson here is to not pass out around peope you don't trust. I'm not sure what someone would do if she stayed passed out and you were the driver. Take her home? Take her to the hospital if you don't know where she lives? I wouldn't want to be stuck with a hospital bill. Unless I knew her, I wouldn't want to deal with her when she woke up.

I do remember a situation where I had some friends drinking with me in my college dorm and one girl passed out on my carpet. Her friends didn't want to leave her passed out in my room so they carried her. I said that wasn't necessary. I heard when she woke up and found out her friends carried her out she was mad. I can imagine how someone might easily think maybe someone wanted something to happen.
SlickSpic
11 years ago
I like your style George, but for a cretin like that, I feel he deserves a Boulder, CO honey bath. Tue the son-of-a-bitch to a tree, pour honey all over him, and let the bear do the rest. There's also a desert variation.
zipman68
11 years ago
@Skibum... I'm calling bullshit on this haterade on progressives. Why do you think the NYPD is progressive? Didn't they lose a case on stop and frisk recently?...hardly a progressive policy. And progressives aren't pro-rape.

Before you come back with this, I don't think conservatives are pro-rape either. You know who is pro-rape? Rapists
SlickSpic
11 years ago
Ask Michael Mineo if the NYPD are progressive.
zipman68
11 years ago
Come to think of it Slick has a point. Some NYPD are pro-rape. But I don't think those were the progressives on the force... (and NYPD not taking Mineo's allegations seriously doesn't exactly make 'em seem politically correct).
sofaking87
11 years ago
Yuck is all I can say.
.juicebox69
11 years ago
Isn't that one of juicebox69 clubbs.???....home of the $5 Lapper
DoctorPhil
11 years ago
@zipman68 “@Skibum... I'm calling bullshit on this haterade on progressives. Why do you think the NYPD is progressive? Didn't they lose a case on stop and frisk recently?...hardly a progressive policy. And progressives aren't pro-rape.”


what, no holier than thou indignation at ilbbaicnl’s bigoted post (which skibum609 was obviously mocking):

@ilbbaicnl: “I would have expected cops in a backwater Southern town to think a woman was "asking for it" if she was a stripper and/or intoxicated and/or accepting rides with dirtbags”


or is it simply that Southerners, rednecks, hillbillies, coon asses, and christians are fair game for haterade? that is one high horse you are riding around on.
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
originaljuicebox69
11 years ago
Present and accounted for
zipman68
11 years ago
@DrPhil... Well, I've got no problem with southerners, coon asses, rednecks, and hillbillies. But Christians...they're pretty fucked up.

If we're going to play PC games... Yes, ilbbaicnl was pretty obnoxious right there. To be fair, at least some cops in both the backwoods and in big cities all tend to view drugged out strippers as fair game.

But if we're going to critique humor, I would say that I didn't catch onto the humor. You see, mockery tends to work better if there is a connection to reality. The problem here is that police anywhere aren't really progressive and neither progressives nor conservatives are pro-rape.

OK...since you asked nicely, I'll make a correction to skibum's joke to yield that connection to reality:

Yeah ilbbaicnl...backwoods cops can be like that. But good thing she wasn't in NYC. The cops that assraped Michael Mineo with a nightstick probably would have joined i!

Still not funny though...maybe it is 'cos rape ain't funny.
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
georgmicrodong
11 years ago
@SlickSpic: Likely to be too quick. Too much chance the bear would get "lucky", slice a major artery and let the guy bleed out in a couple of minutes.
farmerart
11 years ago
Cultural disconnect here. What exactly is a coon ass, please?
goodsouthernboy
11 years ago
Farmerart, a coon-ass is slang/slur for a deep Cajun. I'm not sure where originated.

And yes, I'll disagree on the southern hate. Wtf ilbbaicnl?!
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
Alucard
11 years ago
Hmm... Hatred!?!

Dam.
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
Estafador
11 years ago
@goodsouthernboy wtf is caujim suppose to mean then? Is that also another slander for nigger? Because that is what coon means. No it can't be because Cajun is a socially acceptable word today.

I feel real bad for the stripper's holiday. Hopefully this tough lesson will better arm her for next year.
ATACdawg
11 years ago
Zip, I take the strongest issue with your statement that "Christians are ... pretty fucked up." SOME "Christians" clearly are, the ones who haven't read the Bible (the whole Bible!) in context.

Those of us who have have a lot of tolerance for both sinners (which we all are in varying degrees) and for honest debate on the issues. A number of mainline denominations have taken courageous stands on things like the rights of LGBTs and their place in the Church. Stands that have cost us members! We took those stands because we believed them to be right.

I also will support your right to disagree with me. However, I would hope that you would not tar us all with the same brush.

ATACdawg
11 years ago
And by the way, you would find darn few Christians of any ilk who would support the raping of any woman.
shadowcat
11 years ago
Estafador you are wrong. Coon ass is a derogatory name for a Cajun. Cajuns are French people who live in Louisiana. Coon is a derogatory name for blacks.
ilbbaicnl
11 years ago
I don't think it's a problem unique to the South, but my guess is that it's marginally worse in the South. Just an impression. I've lived in the Mid-West and the South, and based on my very limited experience, the police in the Mid-West were much more professional.
crazyjoe
11 years ago
^^^there are plenty of priests that support raping of children and cover it up
crazyjoe
11 years ago
That is sad what that dancer went thru. Glad they caught the guy... I lineout style gmd
crazyjoe
11 years ago
That is sad what that dancer went thru. Glad they caught the guy... I leout style gmd
DoctorPhil
11 years ago
@zipman68

wow! when i read skibum609’s post i see mockery used as an insult. you however assume it is used as humor. that is really fucked up. try this one:

if you progressives ever manage to take over again are you going to put the jews and the christians in the same railroad cars together or will you be segregating them into separate cars?
farmerart
11 years ago
Thanks, goodsouthernboy.

I understand well the word, cajun. Cajun is a corruption of the French word, Acadien. An 'Acadien' is a resident of L'Acadie, the French speaking areas of Canada's Maritime provinces (primarily New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Les Acadiens who were expelled from Canada after the British defeat of the French on the Plains of Abraham refused to swear allegiance to the crown. The expulsion was a handy way for the Brits to rid themselves of disaffected new subjects. The expulsion also freed up much land for the Brits to grant to loyalists as a reward for their loyalty.
SuperDude
11 years ago
CF in Detroit asked for a ride home from a customer. She was raped at gunpoint. She's pregnant, broke and homeless.
motorhead
11 years ago
farmerart:

I've never heard of the term "coonass"'either. I did not know it referred to Cajuns.
Reading the etymology of the word was interesting. The origins are obscure, but several ideas are proposed.
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
Lol
jackslash
11 years ago
Cajuns are whites of French descent who live mostly in Louisiana. They were exiles from Acadia in Canada, and they speak English with an accent influenced by French. Cajuns, as a minority, have been discriminated against. Of course, most Cajuns were happy to discriminate against blacks.
Estafador
11 years ago
@ATACDawg The slave traders/owners/masters were christian and they loved them some rape before, during and after slavery. Who'd a thunk it.
motorhead
11 years ago
The two most famous Cajuns I know are former NFL QB Bobby Hebert and TV chef Justin Wilson
Estafador
11 years ago
@FarmerArt wish they sure as hell taught that in Global studies in America, but that would seem like too much knowledge for some particulars.
zipman68
11 years ago
DoctorPhil...were you born damaged or did some hot liberal chick stand you up from your high school prom? Your posts ain't normal my friend. You clearly need professional help. Please seek it out before you become a danger to yourself or others.
tumblingdice
11 years ago
Justin Wilson was the best,the overalls,the jug of wine. The way he talked,"You done take dis P.I.G. hog he'ya.
zipman68
11 years ago
@Esta -- In an effort to dial back some of the acrimony and be fair to ATACdawg I will say that many Christians have been motivated by their religion to do good. It is a bit unfair to saddle modern practitioners of a religion with all the sins of the past (nor should they credited with the positives that were accomplished in the name of their religion). Christians is, in reality, to diverse a group to paint with a single brush.

Although that is my general feeling that most groups are pretty diverse, it is interesting to see a particular strain of American conservative emerge in some recent posts. There seems to be a lot of paranoia in this group. Unless they're joking, these conservatives don't just feel that modern progressives (which have essentially no power in modern American politics) aren't just wrong on policy issues but that they are EVIL.

Yep...progressives are actually Nazis who are out to kill good conservatives, enslave puppies, and force good conservative men to eat apple pies that have been defiled in a manner akin to the movie "American Pie". DoctorPhil's world must be a very scary place...fortunately he KNOWS who is out to get him. I just hope that whackjob isn't going to lose it and go all postal on a Progressive insurance agent someday. SMH
zipman68
11 years ago
*Christianity is, in reality, too diverse a group to paint with a single brush.
ATACdawg
11 years ago
@Esta: Yup, you are right. Those people were nominally Christian. So were people like William Wilberforce, Wm Pitt the Younger and the Rev John Newton (a reformed slave ship captain himself and author of Amazing Grace) who fought tirelessly to eliminate the slave trade for thirty years. So were the people, taken as a whole who fought and won the civil war.

And please don't forget the Muslim Arabs and their own black brothers who sold those people to the white, Christian traders in the first place.

Esta, the point of all of this is to eliminate the hate and recognize the parts that all of our ancestors played, both good and bad. From here on, it's up to us to do better, whatever our faith or lack of it.
SlickSpic
11 years ago
How come when the topic of slavery comes up, it's always that the blacks sold their own people into slavery as opposed to different nations, ethnicities, and religious groups while European history isn't white versus white but English, French, etc.? Americans love calling the French cowards as opposed to saying that white people are cowards.

I hardly hear from most Caucasians an open and honest discussion about slavery. Instead of holding the accountable groups accountable, they throw in the blacks sold their own people into slavery.

Nobody talks about the fact that American slavery WAS race based and inherited at birth. African slavery was not great by any means but was temporary, like indentured servitude.

@Atacdawg-I appreciate the fact that you have honest facts about real, historical people.
farmerart
11 years ago
Slavery is a blight on American history, to be sure, but USA does not need to bear all the guilt for this wicked institution. Slavery existed in Europe before the European colonization of North America. The Portuguese started importing slaves from Africa in the mid-1400s, extending the slave trade to Brazil as they colonized South America. To a lesser extent than the Portuguese, the Spanish and some northern European nations also involved themselves in the slave trade.

More than 40% of all slaves brought to the western hemisphere from Africa went to Brazil. Brazil did not abolish slavery until 1888. The slave labour was used on the massive coffee plantations in Brazil. At the end of the Civil War some 10,000 southerners moved to Brazil to continue the lifestyle of slave ownership.
SlickSpic
11 years ago
@Farmerart-Good info. During Columbus' voyages, he would remark about how these or those indigenous people would make great slaves.

One interesting note on the difference between Northern and Southern European attitudes toward race was race mixing. The Mediterranean people mixed it up while the Northern folk did not. Maybe it's due to the history of the Mediterranean and different peoples who populated the area.
DoctorPhil
11 years ago
@zipman68. denigration won't alter the fact that you're as funny as a day old shit.



@farmerart “Slavery existed in Europe before the European colonization of North America. The Portuguese started importing slaves from Africa in the mid-1400s.”

and more European slaves moved towards Africa via the Moors than African slaves ever moved towards Europe. there were Irish and Cornish pirates who specialised in providing English and European slaves to the Moorish markets well into the 1600s (later to become a musical "The Pirates of Penzance").
zipman68
11 years ago
@DoctorPhil -- You know...most people don't find day old shit funny. I bet many people judge you for the fact that you do. But I won't judge you. As long as your comfortable saying you find shit HI-lar-EEEE-ous I will just play along.

However, I would like to help you. With most people you'll want to be circumspect about admitting your coprophilia. Try substituting something that most of society finds pleasant.

For example, when talking to your buddies you might say "I was up all night last evening...I went out and paid a streetwalker to take a big...uh...plant a big flower on my face. Ain't nothing i dig more than a good Hot Kar...uh...hot petunia!".

That way nobody will catch onto your obsession with feces!

P.S. do stay away from me though. I won't judge you but I don't want to shake your hand after you've been putting 'em in shit.
SlickSpic
11 years ago
Notice how Dr. Phil switched Farmerarts' point about European's importing African slaves to the America's into African slaves into Europe and vice-versa?
zipman68
11 years ago
@Slick -- yep, I noticed. You see, ev'rybody's fave scatophile (aka DoctorPhil) is the type of wing nut that simply can't look at the world and see complexities and shades of gray. He has to impose a narrative in which white guys are always the good guys and -- if white folk ever did anything questionable -- that is OK 'cos folks who weren't white did the same thing.

The cognitive dissonance necessary to maintain his world view is probably the thing that drove him to his coprophilia. I feel sorry for him...
farmerart
11 years ago
Even though Lincoln's emancipation laws outlawed slavery in USA during the civil war, the importation of slaves from Africa to USA had been banned in 1808. Children born of slaves after that date became slaves, of course, and the trade of slaves between USA and other western hemisphere slave nations continued.

USA slave traders continued the slave trade in defiance of USA laws and in defiance of the Royal Navy which had been tasked by the British government with interdicting the Africa-North/South America slave trade. A robust adult bought for $25 in Africa could be sold by a slave trader for $500 in Brazil or for even more at an illegal auction in USA.

Some great American fortunes were made in this trade of human beings.
.juicebox69
11 years ago
LOL
.juicebox69
11 years ago
Lol
.juicebox69
11 years ago
Lol
DoctorPhil
11 years ago
@SlickSpic “Notice how Dr. Phil switched Farmerarts' point about European's importing African slaves to the America's into African slaves into Europe and vice-versa?”


i don’t think that Moorish slaver trader blood flowing through your body is getting to your brain. farmerart’s point was that Europe imported African slaves to Europe before they began the trade to the Americas.

“The Portuguese started importing slaves from Africa in the mid-1400s.”

ever hear that Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492 which coincidentally came after the mid-1400s? dumbass. i didn’t switch anything but commented specifically about his point. dumbass.




@zipman68

oh my. more derision from comicbookguy. i’m so......so.....so ROTFLMFAO

facts do not cease to exist because you want to ignore them.

you're nothing but a cunt zipman, always were, always will be, but a dumb cunt is good fun, and i'm just ragging on a you because you’ve been behaving like a jumped up little internet prick with no sense of humour and in desperate need of some KFC shoved up your bunghole to sort yourself out. but seriously comicbookguy, besides yourself there are maybe 15 other people who even bother to read the shit you post, so why do you invest so much time and energy trying to change the thinking of people who are mostly:

a) better educated than you?
b) more experienced in the world than you?
c) smarter than you?
d) more discerning than you?
e) infinitely more interesting than you?


now i’m sure you have a star trek party to get ready for (is anyone else coming btw?) so i’ll let you go work on your costume now. dumbass
SlickSpic
11 years ago
@Dr. Phil-Actually, you didn't. But that's ok. You made zero point but to sound like a moron. I forgive you. It's not your fault. Your name is Dr. Phil, after all. Tell Oprah that I said hello, after she's finished fucking you up the ass with her strap-on.
ATACdawg
11 years ago
You know, folks, the really sad thing is that slavery is still alive and well in pretty much every country on earth. Sweat shops in such diverse places as New York and Bangledesh, the gulags in Russia, brothels in Thailand, not to mention places where women may as well be slaves given the lack of education and opportunity. The list goes on and on.

The fact that these things exist in OUR time and in OUR countries is our shame and our responsibility. The rat bastards who run these pieces of hell need to be run to ground and put away for a very long time.
zipman68
11 years ago
@ATACdawg... Thanks for adding something interesting to this discussion, which has drifted a bit from its original topic. Newton is an interesting case. He continued to participate in the slave trade for a reasonable length of time before actually becoming an abolitionist. Nonetheless, he ultimately ended up on the right side. That said, I think Slick made one of the most important points:

"How come when the topic of slavery comes up, it's always that the blacks sold their own people into slavery...

I hardly hear from most Caucasians an open and honest discussion about slavery. Instead of holding the accountable groups accountable, they throw in the blacks sold their own people into slavery.

Nobody talks about the fact that American slavery WAS race based and inherited at birth."

Hit the nail on the head here.
zipman68
11 years ago
@doctorPhil -- I heap derision on you because your posts exhibit a disproportionate degree of hostility. Your last really takes the cake!

I'm going to be truthful with you regarding my motives because:

1. You may actually be a touch introspective and see an alternative point of view.
2. You may respond in a manner that gives me the lulz.

Who am I kidding...I'd bet a pretty penny on #2. You've given no indication that you can respond with anything other than anger and obfuscation.

So why do I "argue" with some of the posters (i.e., those you allege to be my superiors). Simple, I'm interested in their perspective. Just because I disagree with with a perspective and may even (in some cases) consider it fundamentally illogical doesn't mean I'm not intrigued by said perspective. If you think I'm trying to convert people you're mistaken.

However, since my prediction is that you'll respond in a manner that will give me some lulz I'll share a few observations:

1. You excoriated me for being a nerd with no social life by posting fairly late on a night when many people with actual social lives are out socializing. What's up with that?

2. You state that only 15 TUSCL posters read my posts. How many regular posters do you think there are? For the sake of this argument, count Juice (bless his crazy lil' pervo heart) as one person. You seem to be saying that a high proportion of regular posters read my stuff. Thanks for the compliment!

3. You seem obsessed with pointing out that, in your opinion, many posters are superior to me in a variety of attributes. Why did you feel compelled to do so?

The last of those points would appear to reflect either a clumsy attempt to goad me into responding with some description of my credentials (which you would then dismiss) or an expression of your own desperate need to feel superior. If the latter I suspect it reflects the fact that you actually feel insecure. Perhaps you have not accomplished as much in life as you thought you would when you were young.

So I'll share some helpful advice. True validation is internal. Just focus on the things that make you happy when ever you feel blue.

But do dial back the haterade...rage isn't good for the soul.
ilbbaicnl
11 years ago
@Slick that's the most believable theory I've heard as to how Dr. Phil (the real one) ever got a TV show.
SlickSpic
11 years ago
@Atacdawg-You brought up the truth. We have more slavery now than ever yet it's a moot point for most folks. We've talked about human trafficking before. I've even called ICE on a sweatshop in downtown LA.
ATACdawg
11 years ago
Zip, you get no argument from me. My only point of bringing that up was that pretty much everyone had their oar in that water. I certainly wasn't minimizing the role of white slave owners in the US, and on rereading my post I could have been interpreted as saying all Muslims are bad; I hope my Muslim friends will forgive me for that.

I would also say that the South (again, taken as a whole!) got over the segregation/prejudice thing a lot faster than the North did - they were able to admit there was a problem in the first place.
SlickSpic
11 years ago
@Atacdawg-I agree with most of your last post except about the south getting over segregation/racism. Miss Nina Simone wrote a diddy titled "Mississippi Godamn". In 1964 alone, 30 Black churches were fire bombed in 1964. Imagine 30 anything being firebombed in 2014. Nope. Fight the terrorists as long as they be darkies.
ATACdawg
11 years ago
Slick, I did say taken as a whole. The "wounds were pretty open in '64 when the Civil Rights bill was passed. Where were the next (actually, the first) riots? Detroit, Newark, LA, the DNC in Chicago. All of these were at their base caused by too little progress with a healthy dose of Vietnam thrown into the mix.

I remember several housing related incidents on Long Island in the early 70s when I was going to college.

Can anybody guess what the most segregated hour of the week is today? The hour we spend in church. Is that a formal thing. No, our Presbyterian congregation has a few black members, a couple of mixed families, and newcomers are always welcomed. Brian Blunt is an African-American (there it is, creeping in again - he is an American!) man who is the president of Union Seminary in Richmond and one of the best preachers I have ever heard. Still, there are basically white churches, black churches, Hispanic churches, Korean churches, etc within our denomination; it's much the same in the Methodist and Baptist churches, but not in the Catholic church, probably because people are "assigned" to a congregation in their area.

The whole thing makes me pretty sad.
zipman68
11 years ago
@Slick...

"@Atacdawg-You brought up the truth. We have more slavery now than ever yet it's a moot point for most folks. We've talked about human trafficking before. I've even called ICE on a sweatshop in downtown LA."

I knew you were one of the good guys.
jackslash
11 years ago
Slavery and racial prejudice are the two greatest blemishes on American ideals. We have not lived up to our Declaration of Independence.

A few points:
1. Slavery in USA was based on race. This was not true for other societies. The ancient Romans, for example, enslaved a lot of people, mostly whites like themselves.
2. Quaker Christians in Pennsylvania were the first group I know of that condemned slavery as an institution and worked to abolish it.
3. The British outlawed the slave trade (and enforced it through their navy) in response to political pressures by mainly Christian opponents of slavery.
4. Some of American's founding fathers opposed slavery. Ben Franklin became an opponent, and Alexander Hamilton (a conservative) joined anti-slavery efforts. Jefferson was against slavery on an intellectual level, but disappointingly he owned slaves his whole life.
5. The American abolitionists were overwhelmingly Christian. Read the words to The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
6. After the Civil War, America did not live up to its obligations to the freed slaves. Blacks were subjected to discriminatory laws and prejudices that prevented them from realizing the American dream.




goodsouthernboy
11 years ago
Not so sure Slick. Growing up in the South, I had as many black friends as white, and some of them are like family to this day. In my experiences in the south, people are people. Sometimes stereotypes prove true, sometimes they don't. But I haven't seen true hatred racism. We interact normally for the most part even if we are all wary of the other at times. I've met more true racists from the northeast than I have in the south. I was really surprised at that bc I've always heard how liberal and advanced they are up there. Again, there are exemptions to all stereotypes.

You'll not see the south looking the other way when 30 black churches are firebombed anymore. History is what it is, but we can all change.
georgmicrodong
11 years ago
@gsb: "I've met more true racists from the northeast than I have in the south."

I will echo this sentiment to some extent. I grew up in the northeast, and I never realized just exactly how racist my family and friends were until I moved south. There may be more *virulent* racists in the south, but northern racism is more widespread, if not as open and violent.
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