re: Racism, Racial Slurs against Black Football players at Bama

This is my first post ever, Ten Tex's typical LSU-fan-motivated-to-suggest-something-uniquely-negative about Alabama in this flame/post forced my hand.

I have lived in Louisiana all of my life aside from the 5 years I spent in Alabama. I have no doubt that in terms of white "racism" there is no differece between the people of the two states. Furthermore to suggest that racism exists only in the deep South while excluding Louisiana from the list...you lose all credibility. If anything the educated people in Alabama and Mississippi seem more progressive in their attitudes towards blacks due to the negative history that their states and Universities had during the Civil Rights movement.

There has not been much factual information released about this incident that I have seen, but it is not uncommon these days for "Race" to be inserted into the picture anytime there is an incident between blacks and whites, so you never really know. For the record, I was in the greek system at Bama, and I never once witnessed any distressing incident between black students/athletes/greeks. Your genralization and accusations are directly in contrast to my expirence at the University.

By the way, last year LSU had a black linebacker (Derrick Odom) attack his white student neighboor for making slurs. He attempted to break into the white kid's house to beat him up, trashed the kids parked car, and then punched out the kid's father who came to the house. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.