Say whatever but I'm being asked to believe some things

[paleotn]

39. To a degree, yes. But Tim Scott doesn't seem to have a problem with it.

And having lived in SC for a couple years, I can attest it's without question the most racist state I've ever resided in.

Anecdotal stories... We moved to a relatively small town there. Highly and I mean highly segregated. White folks north of downtown. Black folks south. Been there maybe a month or two. Working on my wife's car one night when our neighbor came over to chit chat. Normal stuff until he wove in probably the most racist statement I'd heard since maybe my high school days in the late 70's. Must have been the look I gave him, but he never, ever went there again in all the convos we had after that. I'm also not very good at poker.

My wife has taught nursing students for years but still likes to keep a foot or two in the clinical world to keep up her skills. She remarked that the medical staff, nurses, scrub techs, etc., in a major, level 1 trauma hospital down there all sat in the beak areas, separated by race. Very little mixing. On her first day as PRN, she plopped down next to a scrub tech she'd met, who was black, along with her other black colleagues and they just looked at her. She asks...what? They say, aren't you supposed to sit over there...with the white folks. My better half, being who she is, quickly replied, "I'll sit wherever the goddamn hell I want to sit....and so should you!" Old OR nurse. They're like that. Not a lot of ambiguity. Loved her since the first day we met.