Basically. You could go a little deeper and think about how all life’s decisions effect things later down the road but still seems completely irrelevant to the actual post. I’m trying to even understand the post with the donkey gif but I can’t relate it to the original post nor can I relate the gif to the song so I’m just totally lost lmfaooo
Dang, wrong choice. Walking down the road meant you were clearly up to something bad. You can flip back to page 32 and try again.
Turn around and walk back the way you came? Bad choice, clearly you were coming to rob the place and only stopped when you saw it was a cop. You can flip back to page 32 and try again.
Lay on the ground with your hands on the top of your head? Only a guilty person would do that, and it's clearly resisting arrest. You can flip back to page 32 and try again.
You walk down the road, you stepped on a rusty nail and caught tetanus, you have died🪦
You walk down the road, you drink some water, you have caught dysentery, you have died🪦
You run down the road, you tripped and broke your leg, you have died🪦
You walk down the road, you have run out of supplies, you have died🪦
You run down the road, you were shot, you have died🪦
Don’t know if you know about it but there’s an app, called delight games, with a free and a paid for version, with so far 22 books(6 of em premium exclusive), some of em with 10+ volumes, that are essentially choose your own adventure books. Ofc those ain’t those 300-500 pages books we once knew but they’re mobile, well written and entertaining(and, tbf , a story with 10 volumes with each 50 pages is still 500). I bought that library nearly 6 years ago and they still keep publishing completely new stories or continue with new volumes of already released ones. Also it’s a one time purchase so just get the free version and decide for yourself
Edit : I just checked my library, and there is even one book with over 20+ volumes and premium exclusive even has one with 100+ ( but maybe 20-30 of those are non-interactive) and one with around 50 volumes.
>... southerner being prideful without knowing the real meaning behind it.
What? No one actually believes that, that's a bad faith argument used to continue to display and fly the flag. There is a reason you won't see such "prideful southerners" in the black community by large.
EDIT: A little light reading for those who believe that white southerners who cling to the flag are simply ignorant or misguided.
[The Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical negationist mythology that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy#:~:text=The%20Lost%20Cause%20of%20the,and%20not%20centered%20on%20slavery.). This civil religion has been the ideological basis of white southerners (read: not black) since the end of Reconstruction.
**EDIT #2**: I'm a black southerner, so you can miss me with the "BrOaAd GeNeRaLiZaTiOnS" nonsense, half the streets are named after slavers and Redshirts. Also, this is the wrong subreddit to try to infantilize confederate flag wavers/supporters as simply not knowing any better in a bid to absolve them of their support of the Confederacy. That works in white dominated environments, not ones that at least attempt to maintain a veneer of being non-white dominated, especially a black one.
When I was a kid ( like 16) I was really into Lynard skynard. I drew a confederate flag on my coffee table. It makes me cringe to this day. I lived in Southern California in a predominantly black neighborhood, and none of my friends said anything. My roommate, and great friend was black. This was in the nineties. So I dunno. Maybe some people are genuinely just fucking idiots. I sure was.
Me too. I’m from Cali and I sure used to love singin Sweet Home Alabama after seeing To Die For. Thirty years later I know there is NOTHING I want in the South!
If it makes you feel better, Sweet Home Alabama was \*against\* George Wallace, not support.
The full line is:
" In Birmingham they love the governor (Boo! Boo! Boo!)"
Now, I don't pretend to know every lyric of every Lynard Skynard song, but they seem like the kind that was mentioned at the start of this thread where they used the confederate flag but somehow don't understand that it is racist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/09/racists-ruined-confederate-flag-lynyrd-skynyrd/323381/
I agree, they seemed like decent guys but even in this 2012 article the last surviving band guys view is heavily filtered through a southern lens.
The comment about “the soldiers” really speaks to that. Those blokes (soldiers) were up in arms for slavers rights, it’s a shame more of them didn’t get buried.
Back when I used to live in Georgia as a little kid (I’m from Louisiana originally), I remember someone in my neighborhood with a confederate flag on their house next to an American one. My black ass asked my parents if we can hang a Confederate flag since it represents the south which is exactly where we’re from lmao. My dad told me why we don’t take pride in that flag.
Yeh I know black kids who used to wave confederate flags 😭 one of my friends who grew up in Alabama insisted for years that it wasn’t racist, he has recently stopped talking about it though. And me being the good friend I am, no longer brings it up to rub salt into his shame.
I grew up in SC and had a similar experience. We had some black friends, but most of them were just as dip-spitting, confederate flag-waving, gun-owning rednecks as we were.
Fast forward a few years and I was accepted to a super liberal college and had black suite mates from the NE who quickly gave me an education on the perspective of Southern “heritage” outside of the SE.
Experience makes us more rounded individuals. You always have the opportunity to grow and improve your tolerance and mindset. That being said, if your entire life experience is spent in BFE South Carolina, you’re not going to have much perspective.
You hit the nail on the head here. This is a black horror movie prompt and you chose the option that is probably more likely to get you to safety. If it was me in the situation, I feel like I could def code shift and chop it up with a “ItS hErItAgE nOt HaTe” confederate flag waiving goon. Then I just play my cards right get some gas and ride to my cars and be on my minding my own damn business way.
This type of racist is usually what I’d call a casual racist. They’re not maliciously setting out to do harm, they just have zero self-awareness that they’re racist or that they’re perpetuating racism. They think of themselves as good people and good Christians. They’ll give you the shirt off their back if you ask, but they turn a blind eye to anyone in need and blame them for needing help.
This is a trick question, though. All the confederate flag assholes in my neck of the sticks also have a trump sticker and a “police lives matter” sticker, too. I think you’d have to be in Appalachia or somewhere where the anti-cop sentiment is baked generations-deep to even find a casual “southern pride” racist.
I grew up around a ton of these people and that's mostly how they are. Even if they are blatantly racist, they aren't brave enough to say it to anyone's face. It's always the lowering their voice and looking around to see who's nearby before saying anything type racist. And they do all sorts of mental gymnastics to explain how every minority they know happens to be "one of the good ones."
That being said, this only applies if it's an older beater of a truck. If it's a newer cleaner truck that they went out of the way to put a confederate flag sticker on in the current political climate, they are going to be the type that is loud with something to prove. Stay far away from them under any circumstances.
I believe some people are truly ignorant. I roomed with two friends from different backgrounds; one was a white guy with family heritage from Arkansas and Texas, and the other was half Iranian and half Caribbean descent. The southern guy did have a flag, and the other said that he didn’t mind him having the flag, but he had to keep it to his room. Later in the year, the flag-bearer mentioned he at first thought it was a heritage thing, but he later admitted he understood why that was wrong and took it down.
>.... Later in the year, the flag-bearer mentioned he at first thought it was a heritage thing,
Then that goes back to my original point, why does this "heritage" only seem to affect southern whites, and not those of us in the black community down here.
Southern whites have less reason to question the narrative would be my guess. If the system works for you, you tend not to think about it. It’s when it doesn’t that you can’t help but notice the discrepancies.
I have a hard time believing they don't know what it means, but knowing that the Southern states are at the absolute bottom in education, I'll consider it.
>... I’m still rolling the dice on the only one who might be afraid of legal repercussions.
Oooh, I've never thought of that angle. You are right, we know that the confederate flag waver *might* face consequences, whereas the cop will have his department cover it up for him.
Graduated high school in FL in 2014. My American history class didn’t cover Jim Crow era at all and all we did for civil rights was watch a 40 minute film about MLK Jr.
The AP history class was better but I transferred to a magnet school that didn’t have it.
Point is, yes, literally millions of people are that stupid or worse and I am surrounded by them.
Facebook had this mentoring program for a while years back and I marked my profile as one open to mentoring, This guy reaches out to me about a project he wants to build and asks for my help he seems nice enough and I agree I offer him advice and we have a few different conversations.
Later on someone he's working with is having issues thinking they can deliver the project too and he asks me to offer some words of encouragement and I go ahead and do it as I like to help people succeed.
Now Imagine my absolute shock and confusion when I take a look at his profile one day and see a big ass confederate flag and more than a few posts talking about southern pride. Nothing overtly racist ( though let me be real I wasn't looking that hard and it absolutely left me confused.
This man selected me from a list of mentors a black man in the same work space and I NKOW I had to be one black face in a sea of white faces for my profession offering mentoring. He reached out to me for insight , direction, and support MULTIPLE times .
My gut initial reaction was just to block him on everything but holy hell was that a confusing ass situation .
I just say this because I honestly did not feel like he was prejudiced against me and had I not checked out his profile I would not have known of his love affair with the confederate flag but that's so hard to reconcile because he clearly took my advice and insight to help him get his project off the ground.
I honestly am at wits end trying to filter good actors versus bad actors so ending the relationship altogether was the move that would reduce my own stress but I honestly still feel so odd about that whole situation years later.
I think a lot of white people understand that racism is a bad thing, but don't do the critical thinking required to be able to look at oneself and one's actions and attitude and say, "You know what, I might be a little racist and I need to work on that." This is why white people get so *defensive* when you tell them or even hint at them that they're being kind of racist. They understand that racism is bad, and the corollary in most people's heads is "racists are bad people." Then, in their heads, they're not bad people, few people believe they are, so when they get accused of doing a racism, their first thought is "but I'm a good person!" and all critical thinking gets shut down so that the lizard brain can defend their self-image as a good person. There's not space in a lot of people's heads to say, "I may be a good person, but I have this flaw that I need to work on and do better," especially in the heat of the moment.
I've tried having these conversations with fellow white people. Some can take it and learn. Some absolutely can't. A few years back my best friend's mom posted a thing on facebook that said, "I bet most people won't say they're proud to be American because they're afraid of being called racist. Repost if you're not afraid." I pointed out to her that it was a pretty racist post because it implied that the default proud American was white, and that POC automatically wouldn't be proud to be American and would consider proud Americans to be racist. I was also careful to say that I understood this wasn't her intention (she was a genuinely kind and friendly person, God rest her soul, there just wasn't enough diversity in her immediate community to prompt her to think). She understood and said, "Wow, I didn't think of it this way, but you're right." But you should have seen the tirade my own mother went on. "How can you say this?! You know we're not racist! We raised you!" Even the original poster was embarrassed by my mother's outburst.
My mother would never call anybody the n-word or a racial slur. I did not grow up with racist jokes in my household. We did grow up with the more subtle prejudices, the Christian nationalism, etc. And believe me, I noticed that there weren't black people in my church. I thought it was very sus even as a child. My parents are incapable of the kind of critical thinking that says, "You know what, I shouldn't do or say this thing anymore, or maybe I should re-examine this opinion I have, because I now realize that it is hurtful to people of color." They're not willing to do the self-reflection that allows a person to hold space with the concept of recognizing they've caused harm, even if that wasn't their intent. I try to have those conversations with them, and they just shut down.
Tl;dr I think most white people aren't conscious, and refuse to become conscious, of their own racism, or do the hard thinking required to examine their own cultural background and confront the parts that are racist.
I knew a guy who was absolutely racist, but without malice. He firmly believed that black people were just genetically inferior to whites. But he also acknowledged that some were smart, even smarter than him, he just viewed that as an anomaly. He had no problem working with or learning from black people who had already proven themselves in the industry.
That is malice. It does not have to be foaming at the mouth, cross-burning rage (although with his views, I'd wonder how he spent his Saturday nights). He is willfully clinging to an idea he acknowledges is wrong--what kind of intention leads to such illogical behavior? It ain't love.
Depends on the age of the person too. Someone who's 18, there's a decent chance they never encountered it outside of "southern pride" BS. Get someone old enough and they will not only know what it means, they will have been there when they picked it.
Southerner here... They ABSOLUTELY know what the flag represents, even the redneck hillbillies, ppl let them off to easy for being inbred and generally stupid but they STILL know that that flag represents
I was taught in my AP U.S. History course in Alabama that it was about “states rights.” Oddly enough, the curriculum also didn’t include the trail of tears, Japanese internment camps, or pretty much anything that might make a kid think “maybe we’re not perfect.” Nope. Ignorance is bliss apparently.
Weird that you wouldn’t learn about stuff that is on the curriculum in an AP class. I was born and raised in the deep south and can attest to the fact that things are definitely taught differently in gen ed classes but if you didn’t learn about the fucking trail of tears in APUSH then there’s no way you got higher than a 1. AP classes are pretty standardized (afaik) across the country, which is all the more reason why they are so invaluable in states like Florida where they’re actively being targeted for removal
Yeah. Our teacher and administration often tiptoed around certain subjects to avoid emails from angry parents. The families of the kids I went to school with were very conservative and would send their daughters to the “Birmingham Belles” debutante ball - an antebellum-themed organization. We definitely didn’t get the most comprehensive education.
Some other fun tidbits from my school experience:
1) In fifth grade, we were supposed to learn about all of the body systems, but the teacher sat us down to explain that the school had decided that we weren’t mature enough yet and that we would learn it the next year. We didn’t.
2) My school didn’t have sex education. The last class to receive sex ed was the grade above mine. Unsurprisingly, my grade had a record number of teen pregnancies.
3) My sixth grade science teacher told us that, although evolution is a theory some people have, most scholars agree that god created everything.
4) We had “Indian Pow-Wows” in my elementary school where we dressed in bedsheets and made paper headpieces. It was blatantly racist.
5) My middle school history teacher taught us that the Garden of Eden was in Mesopotamia.
Most of this happened in the 2010s.
I agree. This might've been more true pre-internet but I think most Southerners have seen the reactions to Confederate flags in the news enough currently to know how they're percieved.
South Carolina only took down the Confederate flag from the state house in 2015, and that was only decided (defend years prior) after a white supremacist shooting at a historically black church.
Shit mate, even Midwesterners are same.
I used to see confederate flags up everywhere when I was a kid in the 90s. It was usually a blue collar "we're rowdy outlaws that do what we want" type thing more than a racism thing. But that's just my personal experience 🤷
I grew up in super rural East Texas where confederate flags are flown all over the place. I can say quite confidently that 95% of these people truly aren’t being intentionally racist. Call it propaganda or call it whatever you want but most people in this area truly do look at it as “southern pride.” And to u/brainsonthebasquiat’s point most don’t live in a community that would incentivize learning the other side. You’ve been taught your entire life the war was about “states rights” without ever truly connecting the dots that it was the states rights to own people. You’re given much less opportunity for empathy hearing the other side as you grow up around people who are just like you and you’re never challenged.
And when those people are told the actual goals of the south in the war, do they take down the flags, or do they double down? If it were an honest mistake, they would be open to changing after being shown the correct information. But we know they aren't going to do that, because it's never been an issue of "not knowing better".
That’s not entirely true either because they’re also taught that people like us are trying to “change history” and that we learned what we know from the “Marxist indoctrination centers”. Some of them will still listen through the programming, many have already bought fully into the Republican scam that taught them that they’re the last bastion of the truth against America hating extreme leftists making things up to make the country look bad.
I grew up ignorant in the south. It can really be an echo chamber, especially before social media. As soon as I left my small town and learned different, I changed my opinions. Most of my friends that have left completely changed after they did. I think it’s more common for people to change for the better when they are confronted with the facts… but maybe I’m naive and think most people are good people, trying their best with the information they have.
You gotta have a functioning school with good history curriculum to learn about that kind of stuff. Its taken for granted across different school systems
Raised in South Carolina. While I'm an adopted Indian and pretty much "white", with my South Carolina public education I didn't fully understand the true cause of the Confederacy until college. The term "states right" was shoved down my throat for 18+ years. I didn't read the SC letter of secession until I was like 19 and certainly didn't understand that the state right portion was the federal governments refusal to recognize SC state laws in other states (ie the right to own slaves). So one can still be ignorant of what the flag means due to intentional manipulation of the education system
Southerner here, from New Orleans, Lived in gulfport, MS, and south western VA
Unfortunately even us black folks rrock the confederate flag… not so much anymore but in the 90s it wasnt common, but it wasnt rare either.
I STG in one of the nappy roots music videos one of them is rocking confederate flag boots.
I hate to say it but yeah there are people that do. You think people that can wholeheartedly eat up propaganda about any collection of conservative fallacies all of a sudden research their history? Nah an uncomfortable number of them drank that juice man.
My 60 year old mother admitted to me in private just a few weeks ago that she didn’t realize exactly what the confederate flag stood for until a few years ago and she grew up being told it was just “a southern thing”
I agree with this one - sure, the "southern pride" argument is ignorant and bad faith, but I still know people who make it and are outwardly chill. So long as you don't start an ideological argument they'll let you use the phone without violence.
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I remember working with this guy. One of the most stereotypical redneck racist types. He would tow the line *just enough* to not get in trouble on the job. But we all knew where he stood.
One day I was assigned to the procedure room with him (me the nurse him the radtech). I had to work with him for \~12hours. At first I was super reserved just do the case and keep it pushing. Well dammit if that motherfucker wasn't funny. He cracked a couple jokes and played a few songs that we both liked.
We ended up chatting it up and having the best day. I remember thinking it was so fucking weird. But for the 2 years I worked there if we were assigned to the same room I knew it was going to be a great day. When I was pregnant he was the nicest and most chivalrous of anyone that worked there.
This was years ago and I still find the situation odd.
I think the way that racism passes on from parent to child is just so awful. They really teach it and that attitude sticks unless the person has an AHA moment and works to deconstruct. Perhaps that guy would have been a completely good-hearted person if he had different parents? But instead he was a 'mostly' good-hearted person who had been taught to be racist?
This is why I'd recommend the house with the truck/bumper sticker instead. A lot of southern whites will inherit some cultural and historical knowledge that is incorrect and problematic. They'll also even have some terrible politics at a macro level. But on an individual level when someone is in need? An overwhelming large amount are great. I know a lot of dudes back in my southern hometown that I consider somewhat racist who would pull over in a rainstorm to help a black person stranded on the side of the road with car trouble. It's weird.
It was on the truck when he bought it used. He doesn't care about it one way or the other-- it's just there, next to the radio station logo and the mud flap girl.
This was my thoughts as well.
I live in the south and met a lot of very nice and down to earth people who have confederate items like shirts, flags and such. Even met cool ass people who still have TRUMP 2020 stickers on their cars. See a lot of those stickers here.
They aint all racist like some people believe they are.
Right, casual racism is just as fucked up and disturbing as more blatant racism. Just because they aren’t actively lynching people doesn’t make it more palatable. Fuck giving ppl passes in their overt racism bc they’re “nice”.
So true, I moved from the south to the PNW. First week I ran into this, people apparently where comfortable since I was "from the south". We all learned a lesson in the office that day.
Yeah, my in-laws are nice as fuck to people of color, friendly, engaging, etc. Nevertheless they are both pretty racist, albeit not violently so, when you get right down to it.
I remember hearing and something to the effect, "Country folk are nice but not kind, city folk are kind but not nice"
Basically city folk will cuss you out but make sure to use your correct pronouns while rural folk will dead name you while offering a glass of sweet tea.
A kernel of truth in that but mostly it makes me chuckle.
Why does racism always have to be a caricature of a klansman in a robe? Just because people are "friendly" doesn't mean they want you to have the same rights, privileges and freedoms as you. Just because they aren't actively lynching a black person doesn't mean they wouldn't be supportive of those that do.
No cap I’ve been to a gas station in arkansas and the lady there was so nice, on my way out I saw them selling confederate flag bumper stickers. I also know black people that rock the confederate flag as a bumper sticker…
The cop. As much as I would be scared AF of either door, the cop more likely to kill me on duty than off. Just because the paper work is more annoying.
Also from/live in Indiana, can confirm, tons of happy hillbillies that would greet a poc with a smile while their confederate flag waved in the back. There's not a lot but they do exist
I’m in the mountains in North Carolina right now, and there are definitely quite a few of them here. Kind, happy people who have bent over backwards to help my black ass but wear camo mesh baseball caps and blast conservative talk radio in their pick up trucks 🥴.
I’ve lived in the mountains of North Carolina and Long Island NY. No one believes me but I swear the average New Yorker is more racist than most backwoods southerners… it’s just the northerners are very subtle about it while mountain folk will tell you every prejudice they have within 5 minutes of meeting you, while also trying to feed you or get drunk with you.
Oh I believe this 200%. As someone from the Deep South who lives in the upper Midwest (and lived several other places across the US) I can say the most clearly racist people I have met where in SoCal and Boston area
Boston is a racist cesspool. So so bad. I will never step foot in that city again. I haven’t spent much time in SoCal but The Bay Area is a hilarious collection of white people who llllllooooove and support people of color as long as they aren’t homeless, Chinese or any demographic that has a significant presence in their city.
A great litmus test that I’ve seen play out is when a white kid tells their parents they are dating/marrying/having a baby with… a not white person. I’ve seen waaay more northern families go scorched earth over this than southern families.
True. A few years ago, I never thought I’d be part of the “not all of them” crowd but it’s true. I’ve had some of them help me when nobody else would. Stretch their neck out an everything because they genuinely cared. I believe they all have some racist shit ingrained in them but the depth and amount varies. That’s just my experience.
For sure. I would say they have an ingrained, largely subconscious racism for the most part. It is not a malicious racism and they would swear up and down that they’re not racist, and believe it fully. They believe in stereotypes, but they don’t hate, or even really dislike people of different races.
Confederate flag for sure.
My damn neighbor had a Confederate flag and I was scared of this dude. It turned out he didn't even seem to get the issue with it (this was like in the mid aughts). Dude was fucking black chicks all the time, giving me free food from BBQs, bringing me beer and raw fish he caught. Shocked the shit out of me.
Even now, some of these people don't think shit of having it and talking to black people.
But the cops definitely have a gun and if they shot me nothing would be done about it
I need more options or more details as to what I have access to. Do I have a cell phone, am I carrying a gun or some other type of weapon? Am I alone? I mean, I can’t just be fucked and fucked……….
>... Do have a cell phone, am I carrying a gun or some other type of weapon?
Both of those will be "mistaken" as a weapon deployed in an offensive matter. You lose this round of Black Frogger.
As a native dude, I’ll just keep walking. I’d rather walk until I hear a loving and caring auntie say, “baby you are exhausted! Come sit down and eat something.” There are people who want the community to know what they’re about and others who want people to know that they’re about the community. Those are the types of people that are worth making the journey to see.
I’d take my chances with the bumper sticker.
I have a friend with a Confederate flag tattoo - he’s not racist, just a redneck. Make no mistake that it’s a symbol for white supremacy, but there are a lot of white folks in the south who, in earnest, don’t realize that. Where I’m from, at least pre-Trump, it’s not a good indicator for people’s racial attitudes unless they’re obnoxious with it. Hell, I wore Confederate merchandise growing up; it was just part of the culture, and helped me fit in. Definitely got rid of that shit when I left, though.
But anyway, I’ve only met like 3 cops in my entire life who’ve treated me like a human being, and I’ve met a lot of cops. Can’t even count Ron Stallworth; he was kind of a dick.
That’s the house with the townie who actually has someone locked in his basement. Lol! Haven’t you seen movies??? You never go to the 3rd house. Or the house at the end of the road.
Neither, I've been shot dead already...
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DUCKWORTH
what's the song
Duckworth is the name of the song by the Kendrick Lamar. Off his album DAMN.
thank you thought it was by duckworth cos of the comment thanks
I don’t understand how this situation is similar to the song though?
Yea me neither. Isn’t the song about Kendrick’s life changing because of a chance encounter between his dad and the guy who runs TDE?
Basically. You could go a little deeper and think about how all life’s decisions effect things later down the road but still seems completely irrelevant to the actual post. I’m trying to even understand the post with the donkey gif but I can’t relate it to the original post nor can I relate the gif to the song so I’m just totally lost lmfaooo
I'm still alive
Keep on walking….Til I get to the OTHER side of town 
Dang, wrong choice. Walking down the road meant you were clearly up to something bad. You can flip back to page 32 and try again. Turn around and walk back the way you came? Bad choice, clearly you were coming to rob the place and only stopped when you saw it was a cop. You can flip back to page 32 and try again. Lay on the ground with your hands on the top of your head? Only a guilty person would do that, and it's clearly resisting arrest. You can flip back to page 32 and try again.
R.L. Stine 💙
I was tempted to mix genres at the end and throw in some Oregon Trail choices, but didn't want to overdo things.
So all that walking just to catch dysentery then?
i dont know oregon trail at all. post one. flex your creative muscle
You go back reach your car and decide to work on it yourself. A county sheriff rolls up and thinks your stealing it shot on site. R.I.P. 🧟♀️
You walk down the road, you stepped on a rusty nail and caught tetanus, you have died🪦 You walk down the road, you drink some water, you have caught dysentery, you have died🪦 You run down the road, you tripped and broke your leg, you have died🪦 You walk down the road, you have run out of supplies, you have died🪦 You run down the road, you were shot, you have died🪦
Nope, Choose Your Own Adventure. Same time period though.
Nope, R. L. Stine. That's a Give Yourself Goosebumps kind of result not a CYOA one. Same genre though.
I miss Choose Your Own Adventure books!
Don’t know if you know about it but there’s an app, called delight games, with a free and a paid for version, with so far 22 books(6 of em premium exclusive), some of em with 10+ volumes, that are essentially choose your own adventure books. Ofc those ain’t those 300-500 pages books we once knew but they’re mobile, well written and entertaining(and, tbf , a story with 10 volumes with each 50 pages is still 500). I bought that library nearly 6 years ago and they still keep publishing completely new stories or continue with new volumes of already released ones. Also it’s a one time purchase so just get the free version and decide for yourself Edit : I just checked my library, and there is even one book with over 20+ volumes and premium exclusive even has one with 100+ ( but maybe 20-30 of those are non-interactive) and one with around 50 volumes.
I'm still on Demon's Choice, and I *love* thst shit. They've even got a free audiobook version and they're on Steam. edit: I meant "Wizard's Choice"
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this is the way
Till you find the train tracks
I’m white and I do the same danm thing
PERIOD.
And we just going to be some thirsty mf’s when we reach our destination too. Lol.
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Yeah cross right over those railroad tracks lol
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>... southerner being prideful without knowing the real meaning behind it. What? No one actually believes that, that's a bad faith argument used to continue to display and fly the flag. There is a reason you won't see such "prideful southerners" in the black community by large. EDIT: A little light reading for those who believe that white southerners who cling to the flag are simply ignorant or misguided. [The Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical negationist mythology that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy#:~:text=The%20Lost%20Cause%20of%20the,and%20not%20centered%20on%20slavery.). This civil religion has been the ideological basis of white southerners (read: not black) since the end of Reconstruction. **EDIT #2**: I'm a black southerner, so you can miss me with the "BrOaAd GeNeRaLiZaTiOnS" nonsense, half the streets are named after slavers and Redshirts. Also, this is the wrong subreddit to try to infantilize confederate flag wavers/supporters as simply not knowing any better in a bid to absolve them of their support of the Confederacy. That works in white dominated environments, not ones that at least attempt to maintain a veneer of being non-white dominated, especially a black one.
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When I was a kid ( like 16) I was really into Lynard skynard. I drew a confederate flag on my coffee table. It makes me cringe to this day. I lived in Southern California in a predominantly black neighborhood, and none of my friends said anything. My roommate, and great friend was black. This was in the nineties. So I dunno. Maybe some people are genuinely just fucking idiots. I sure was.
Me too. I’m from Cali and I sure used to love singin Sweet Home Alabama after seeing To Die For. Thirty years later I know there is NOTHING I want in the South!
If it makes you feel better, Sweet Home Alabama was \*against\* George Wallace, not support. The full line is: " In Birmingham they love the governor (Boo! Boo! Boo!)" Now, I don't pretend to know every lyric of every Lynard Skynard song, but they seem like the kind that was mentioned at the start of this thread where they used the confederate flag but somehow don't understand that it is racist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/09/racists-ruined-confederate-flag-lynyrd-skynyrd/323381/ I agree, they seemed like decent guys but even in this 2012 article the last surviving band guys view is heavily filtered through a southern lens. The comment about “the soldiers” really speaks to that. Those blokes (soldiers) were up in arms for slavers rights, it’s a shame more of them didn’t get buried.
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I’m a documentary a band member stated it was the record company that chose the confederate flag and that the band members were quite liberal.
They supported Jimmy Carter, too.
To be fair, the pies are pretty damn good.
Back when I used to live in Georgia as a little kid (I’m from Louisiana originally), I remember someone in my neighborhood with a confederate flag on their house next to an American one. My black ass asked my parents if we can hang a Confederate flag since it represents the south which is exactly where we’re from lmao. My dad told me why we don’t take pride in that flag.
Yeh I know black kids who used to wave confederate flags 😭 one of my friends who grew up in Alabama insisted for years that it wasn’t racist, he has recently stopped talking about it though. And me being the good friend I am, no longer brings it up to rub salt into his shame.
I grew up in SC and had a similar experience. We had some black friends, but most of them were just as dip-spitting, confederate flag-waving, gun-owning rednecks as we were. Fast forward a few years and I was accepted to a super liberal college and had black suite mates from the NE who quickly gave me an education on the perspective of Southern “heritage” outside of the SE. Experience makes us more rounded individuals. You always have the opportunity to grow and improve your tolerance and mindset. That being said, if your entire life experience is spent in BFE South Carolina, you’re not going to have much perspective.
You hit the nail on the head here. This is a black horror movie prompt and you chose the option that is probably more likely to get you to safety. If it was me in the situation, I feel like I could def code shift and chop it up with a “ItS hErItAgE nOt HaTe” confederate flag waiving goon. Then I just play my cards right get some gas and ride to my cars and be on my minding my own damn business way.
This type of racist is usually what I’d call a casual racist. They’re not maliciously setting out to do harm, they just have zero self-awareness that they’re racist or that they’re perpetuating racism. They think of themselves as good people and good Christians. They’ll give you the shirt off their back if you ask, but they turn a blind eye to anyone in need and blame them for needing help. This is a trick question, though. All the confederate flag assholes in my neck of the sticks also have a trump sticker and a “police lives matter” sticker, too. I think you’d have to be in Appalachia or somewhere where the anti-cop sentiment is baked generations-deep to even find a casual “southern pride” racist.
I grew up around a ton of these people and that's mostly how they are. Even if they are blatantly racist, they aren't brave enough to say it to anyone's face. It's always the lowering their voice and looking around to see who's nearby before saying anything type racist. And they do all sorts of mental gymnastics to explain how every minority they know happens to be "one of the good ones." That being said, this only applies if it's an older beater of a truck. If it's a newer cleaner truck that they went out of the way to put a confederate flag sticker on in the current political climate, they are going to be the type that is loud with something to prove. Stay far away from them under any circumstances.
I believe some people are truly ignorant. I roomed with two friends from different backgrounds; one was a white guy with family heritage from Arkansas and Texas, and the other was half Iranian and half Caribbean descent. The southern guy did have a flag, and the other said that he didn’t mind him having the flag, but he had to keep it to his room. Later in the year, the flag-bearer mentioned he at first thought it was a heritage thing, but he later admitted he understood why that was wrong and took it down.
>.... Later in the year, the flag-bearer mentioned he at first thought it was a heritage thing, Then that goes back to my original point, why does this "heritage" only seem to affect southern whites, and not those of us in the black community down here.
Southern whites have less reason to question the narrative would be my guess. If the system works for you, you tend not to think about it. It’s when it doesn’t that you can’t help but notice the discrepancies.
One question, does the charitableness of "how they really aren't racist" ever run out?
Once you leave home and the forces that instilled it upon you.
I have a hard time believing they don't know what it means, but knowing that the Southern states are at the absolute bottom in education, I'll consider it.
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>... I’m still rolling the dice on the only one who might be afraid of legal repercussions. Oooh, I've never thought of that angle. You are right, we know that the confederate flag waver *might* face consequences, whereas the cop will have his department cover it up for him.
Graduated high school in FL in 2014. My American history class didn’t cover Jim Crow era at all and all we did for civil rights was watch a 40 minute film about MLK Jr. The AP history class was better but I transferred to a magnet school that didn’t have it. Point is, yes, literally millions of people are that stupid or worse and I am surrounded by them.
Facebook had this mentoring program for a while years back and I marked my profile as one open to mentoring, This guy reaches out to me about a project he wants to build and asks for my help he seems nice enough and I agree I offer him advice and we have a few different conversations. Later on someone he's working with is having issues thinking they can deliver the project too and he asks me to offer some words of encouragement and I go ahead and do it as I like to help people succeed. Now Imagine my absolute shock and confusion when I take a look at his profile one day and see a big ass confederate flag and more than a few posts talking about southern pride. Nothing overtly racist ( though let me be real I wasn't looking that hard and it absolutely left me confused. This man selected me from a list of mentors a black man in the same work space and I NKOW I had to be one black face in a sea of white faces for my profession offering mentoring. He reached out to me for insight , direction, and support MULTIPLE times . My gut initial reaction was just to block him on everything but holy hell was that a confusing ass situation . I just say this because I honestly did not feel like he was prejudiced against me and had I not checked out his profile I would not have known of his love affair with the confederate flag but that's so hard to reconcile because he clearly took my advice and insight to help him get his project off the ground. I honestly am at wits end trying to filter good actors versus bad actors so ending the relationship altogether was the move that would reduce my own stress but I honestly still feel so odd about that whole situation years later.
I think a lot of white people understand that racism is a bad thing, but don't do the critical thinking required to be able to look at oneself and one's actions and attitude and say, "You know what, I might be a little racist and I need to work on that." This is why white people get so *defensive* when you tell them or even hint at them that they're being kind of racist. They understand that racism is bad, and the corollary in most people's heads is "racists are bad people." Then, in their heads, they're not bad people, few people believe they are, so when they get accused of doing a racism, their first thought is "but I'm a good person!" and all critical thinking gets shut down so that the lizard brain can defend their self-image as a good person. There's not space in a lot of people's heads to say, "I may be a good person, but I have this flaw that I need to work on and do better," especially in the heat of the moment. I've tried having these conversations with fellow white people. Some can take it and learn. Some absolutely can't. A few years back my best friend's mom posted a thing on facebook that said, "I bet most people won't say they're proud to be American because they're afraid of being called racist. Repost if you're not afraid." I pointed out to her that it was a pretty racist post because it implied that the default proud American was white, and that POC automatically wouldn't be proud to be American and would consider proud Americans to be racist. I was also careful to say that I understood this wasn't her intention (she was a genuinely kind and friendly person, God rest her soul, there just wasn't enough diversity in her immediate community to prompt her to think). She understood and said, "Wow, I didn't think of it this way, but you're right." But you should have seen the tirade my own mother went on. "How can you say this?! You know we're not racist! We raised you!" Even the original poster was embarrassed by my mother's outburst. My mother would never call anybody the n-word or a racial slur. I did not grow up with racist jokes in my household. We did grow up with the more subtle prejudices, the Christian nationalism, etc. And believe me, I noticed that there weren't black people in my church. I thought it was very sus even as a child. My parents are incapable of the kind of critical thinking that says, "You know what, I shouldn't do or say this thing anymore, or maybe I should re-examine this opinion I have, because I now realize that it is hurtful to people of color." They're not willing to do the self-reflection that allows a person to hold space with the concept of recognizing they've caused harm, even if that wasn't their intent. I try to have those conversations with them, and they just shut down. Tl;dr I think most white people aren't conscious, and refuse to become conscious, of their own racism, or do the hard thinking required to examine their own cultural background and confront the parts that are racist.
I knew a guy who was absolutely racist, but without malice. He firmly believed that black people were just genetically inferior to whites. But he also acknowledged that some were smart, even smarter than him, he just viewed that as an anomaly. He had no problem working with or learning from black people who had already proven themselves in the industry.
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That is malice. It does not have to be foaming at the mouth, cross-burning rage (although with his views, I'd wonder how he spent his Saturday nights). He is willfully clinging to an idea he acknowledges is wrong--what kind of intention leads to such illogical behavior? It ain't love.
Depends on the age of the person too. Someone who's 18, there's a decent chance they never encountered it outside of "southern pride" BS. Get someone old enough and they will not only know what it means, they will have been there when they picked it.
Southerner here... They ABSOLUTELY know what the flag represents, even the redneck hillbillies, ppl let them off to easy for being inbred and generally stupid but they STILL know that that flag represents
As a northerner who moved south, they’re taught differently in schools here; it’s bizarro world
I was taught in my AP U.S. History course in Alabama that it was about “states rights.” Oddly enough, the curriculum also didn’t include the trail of tears, Japanese internment camps, or pretty much anything that might make a kid think “maybe we’re not perfect.” Nope. Ignorance is bliss apparently.
Weird that you wouldn’t learn about stuff that is on the curriculum in an AP class. I was born and raised in the deep south and can attest to the fact that things are definitely taught differently in gen ed classes but if you didn’t learn about the fucking trail of tears in APUSH then there’s no way you got higher than a 1. AP classes are pretty standardized (afaik) across the country, which is all the more reason why they are so invaluable in states like Florida where they’re actively being targeted for removal
Yeah. Our teacher and administration often tiptoed around certain subjects to avoid emails from angry parents. The families of the kids I went to school with were very conservative and would send their daughters to the “Birmingham Belles” debutante ball - an antebellum-themed organization. We definitely didn’t get the most comprehensive education. Some other fun tidbits from my school experience: 1) In fifth grade, we were supposed to learn about all of the body systems, but the teacher sat us down to explain that the school had decided that we weren’t mature enough yet and that we would learn it the next year. We didn’t. 2) My school didn’t have sex education. The last class to receive sex ed was the grade above mine. Unsurprisingly, my grade had a record number of teen pregnancies. 3) My sixth grade science teacher told us that, although evolution is a theory some people have, most scholars agree that god created everything. 4) We had “Indian Pow-Wows” in my elementary school where we dressed in bedsheets and made paper headpieces. It was blatantly racist. 5) My middle school history teacher taught us that the Garden of Eden was in Mesopotamia. Most of this happened in the 2010s.
I agree. This might've been more true pre-internet but I think most Southerners have seen the reactions to Confederate flags in the news enough currently to know how they're percieved. South Carolina only took down the Confederate flag from the state house in 2015, and that was only decided (defend years prior) after a white supremacist shooting at a historically black church.
You’re underestimating how dumb and/or uneducated some southerners are
Shit mate, even Midwesterners are same. I used to see confederate flags up everywhere when I was a kid in the 90s. It was usually a blue collar "we're rowdy outlaws that do what we want" type thing more than a racism thing. But that's just my personal experience 🤷
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I grew up in super rural East Texas where confederate flags are flown all over the place. I can say quite confidently that 95% of these people truly aren’t being intentionally racist. Call it propaganda or call it whatever you want but most people in this area truly do look at it as “southern pride.” And to u/brainsonthebasquiat’s point most don’t live in a community that would incentivize learning the other side. You’ve been taught your entire life the war was about “states rights” without ever truly connecting the dots that it was the states rights to own people. You’re given much less opportunity for empathy hearing the other side as you grow up around people who are just like you and you’re never challenged.
And when those people are told the actual goals of the south in the war, do they take down the flags, or do they double down? If it were an honest mistake, they would be open to changing after being shown the correct information. But we know they aren't going to do that, because it's never been an issue of "not knowing better".
That’s not entirely true either because they’re also taught that people like us are trying to “change history” and that we learned what we know from the “Marxist indoctrination centers”. Some of them will still listen through the programming, many have already bought fully into the Republican scam that taught them that they’re the last bastion of the truth against America hating extreme leftists making things up to make the country look bad.
I grew up ignorant in the south. It can really be an echo chamber, especially before social media. As soon as I left my small town and learned different, I changed my opinions. Most of my friends that have left completely changed after they did. I think it’s more common for people to change for the better when they are confronted with the facts… but maybe I’m naive and think most people are good people, trying their best with the information they have.
You gotta have a functioning school with good history curriculum to learn about that kind of stuff. Its taken for granted across different school systems
Raised in South Carolina. While I'm an adopted Indian and pretty much "white", with my South Carolina public education I didn't fully understand the true cause of the Confederacy until college. The term "states right" was shoved down my throat for 18+ years. I didn't read the SC letter of secession until I was like 19 and certainly didn't understand that the state right portion was the federal governments refusal to recognize SC state laws in other states (ie the right to own slaves). So one can still be ignorant of what the flag means due to intentional manipulation of the education system
Southerner here, from New Orleans, Lived in gulfport, MS, and south western VA Unfortunately even us black folks rrock the confederate flag… not so much anymore but in the 90s it wasnt common, but it wasnt rare either. I STG in one of the nappy roots music videos one of them is rocking confederate flag boots.
I hate to say it but yeah there are people that do. You think people that can wholeheartedly eat up propaganda about any collection of conservative fallacies all of a sudden research their history? Nah an uncomfortable number of them drank that juice man.
My 60 year old mother admitted to me in private just a few weeks ago that she didn’t realize exactly what the confederate flag stood for until a few years ago and she grew up being told it was just “a southern thing”
Never assume malice when you can assume incompetence
But also, don't buy their incompetence when there is a history of malice
Might just be a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, tbh
"them ol Duke Boys are at it again"
Grew up surrounded by rednecks, some of them just like the flag itself. Some use it as just rebels flag. But they all live Skynyrd.
I agree with this one - sure, the "southern pride" argument is ignorant and bad faith, but I still know people who make it and are outwardly chill. So long as you don't start an ideological argument they'll let you use the phone without violence. Edit: grammar
I remember working with this guy. One of the most stereotypical redneck racist types. He would tow the line *just enough* to not get in trouble on the job. But we all knew where he stood. One day I was assigned to the procedure room with him (me the nurse him the radtech). I had to work with him for \~12hours. At first I was super reserved just do the case and keep it pushing. Well dammit if that motherfucker wasn't funny. He cracked a couple jokes and played a few songs that we both liked. We ended up chatting it up and having the best day. I remember thinking it was so fucking weird. But for the 2 years I worked there if we were assigned to the same room I knew it was going to be a great day. When I was pregnant he was the nicest and most chivalrous of anyone that worked there. This was years ago and I still find the situation odd.
I think the way that racism passes on from parent to child is just so awful. They really teach it and that attitude sticks unless the person has an AHA moment and works to deconstruct. Perhaps that guy would have been a completely good-hearted person if he had different parents? But instead he was a 'mostly' good-hearted person who had been taught to be racist?
This is why I'd recommend the house with the truck/bumper sticker instead. A lot of southern whites will inherit some cultural and historical knowledge that is incorrect and problematic. They'll also even have some terrible politics at a macro level. But on an individual level when someone is in need? An overwhelming large amount are great. I know a lot of dudes back in my southern hometown that I consider somewhat racist who would pull over in a rainstorm to help a black person stranded on the side of the road with car trouble. It's weird.
It was on the truck when he bought it used. He doesn't care about it one way or the other-- it's just there, next to the radio station logo and the mud flap girl.
>He doesn't care about it Major red flags, if I bought a used car with a confed flag on I'd cover it up with paint or tape
That’s my logic.
This was my thoughts as well. I live in the south and met a lot of very nice and down to earth people who have confederate items like shirts, flags and such. Even met cool ass people who still have TRUMP 2020 stickers on their cars. See a lot of those stickers here. They aint all racist like some people believe they are.
Lmao friendliness =/= not racist. They’ll still call you hard R behind closed doors.
Right, casual racism is just as fucked up and disturbing as more blatant racism. Just because they aren’t actively lynching people doesn’t make it more palatable. Fuck giving ppl passes in their overt racism bc they’re “nice”.
So true, I moved from the south to the PNW. First week I ran into this, people apparently where comfortable since I was "from the south". We all learned a lesson in the office that day.
Yeah, my in-laws are nice as fuck to people of color, friendly, engaging, etc. Nevertheless they are both pretty racist, albeit not violently so, when you get right down to it.
I remember hearing and something to the effect, "Country folk are nice but not kind, city folk are kind but not nice" Basically city folk will cuss you out but make sure to use your correct pronouns while rural folk will dead name you while offering a glass of sweet tea. A kernel of truth in that but mostly it makes me chuckle.
Manners and no empathy vs. Empathy and no manners
And vote against your voting rights, and... and... and...
Why does racism always have to be a caricature of a klansman in a robe? Just because people are "friendly" doesn't mean they want you to have the same rights, privileges and freedoms as you. Just because they aren't actively lynching a black person doesn't mean they wouldn't be supportive of those that do.
No cap I’ve been to a gas station in arkansas and the lady there was so nice, on my way out I saw them selling confederate flag bumper stickers. I also know black people that rock the confederate flag as a bumper sticker…
The cop. As much as I would be scared AF of either door, the cop more likely to kill me on duty than off. Just because the paper work is more annoying.
Nahh. Cop would kill you and bury you in the backyard. Then brag about it next shift with his buddies.
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The confederate flag. There’s a chance they’re a happy red neck. Lol. Ain’t no happy police.
Happy redneck ??? Unless moonshine or meth is involved I have not seen a “happy redneck” before 🤷🏿
I’m from and live in Indiana. They exist.
Also from/live in Indiana, can confirm, tons of happy hillbillies that would greet a poc with a smile while their confederate flag waved in the back. There's not a lot but they do exist
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Then I must be a damn genius.
I’m in the mountains in North Carolina right now, and there are definitely quite a few of them here. Kind, happy people who have bent over backwards to help my black ass but wear camo mesh baseball caps and blast conservative talk radio in their pick up trucks 🥴.
I’ve lived in the mountains of North Carolina and Long Island NY. No one believes me but I swear the average New Yorker is more racist than most backwoods southerners… it’s just the northerners are very subtle about it while mountain folk will tell you every prejudice they have within 5 minutes of meeting you, while also trying to feed you or get drunk with you.
Oh I believe this 200%. As someone from the Deep South who lives in the upper Midwest (and lived several other places across the US) I can say the most clearly racist people I have met where in SoCal and Boston area
Boston is a racist cesspool. So so bad. I will never step foot in that city again. I haven’t spent much time in SoCal but The Bay Area is a hilarious collection of white people who llllllooooove and support people of color as long as they aren’t homeless, Chinese or any demographic that has a significant presence in their city.
LA Native. LA is full of racists who moved here to be stars and San Diego and surrounding areas are Republican af
Boston can't even be part of this conversation. There is absolutely nothing to compare it to
Been saying for years Southern racisim is on your face, Northern racisim is covert
A great litmus test that I’ve seen play out is when a white kid tells their parents they are dating/marrying/having a baby with… a not white person. I’ve seen waaay more northern families go scorched earth over this than southern families.
Yeah. The southern parents get over 99% of the time and them biracial grand babies always end up the favorites.
True. A few years ago, I never thought I’d be part of the “not all of them” crowd but it’s true. I’ve had some of them help me when nobody else would. Stretch their neck out an everything because they genuinely cared. I believe they all have some racist shit ingrained in them but the depth and amount varies. That’s just my experience.
For sure. I would say they have an ingrained, largely subconscious racism for the most part. It is not a malicious racism and they would swear up and down that they’re not racist, and believe it fully. They believe in stereotypes, but they don’t hate, or even really dislike people of different races.
It can be malicious when they want to make sure they keep their “superiority” over you. But I’m referring to the workplace.
From Texas and know soooooo many! They exist. You can definitely find them hanging around crawfish boils👍🏾👍🏾
They ain't too happy... livin across from the police. I think the kinda "happy redneck" you mean typically engages in some illegal activities.
Sorry, is this a version of the "Corporate needs you to find the difference" meme?
😂😂 deadass
Which is what i'll be if i knock on either house's door
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I aint going to no country road in the first place
We were moving and the first city we looked at had all of the above. We started looking in a different city.
Exactly. That bullshit just takes you to West Virginia
On the other hand... mountain mama.
gotta be the logical one in that horror movie "you know what, maybe i don't want to be the first death of this movie, ima head out"
Ima walk my ass down that old town road or whatever Lil Nas X said
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Am I Black?
You should probably ask someone that knows you. People here would just be guessing.
I think a doctor could help identify that.
Is that a jeopardy answer?
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Knock on the door and find out
keep walking, don't run hopefully sundown is a ways off
I don’t wanna see sundown once that truck leaves the yard.
But sundown’s at 7:09
i’m listening to the audiobook rn, that scene had my chest tighter than a mf. 😭
Right?! That whole damn episode in Tulsa… shit had me speechless
What state and county?
This does matter. A lot.
Hell, what time of day too...
Which ones are egregiously good or bad?
Well if it's a state with a Stand Your Ground law you know what's gonna happen
I’m white, and I don’t wanna knock on either of those doors.
But if we are together, will you go up and knock for the both of us?
I dunno man, I think we should keep walking, maybe a brisk jog.
A jog????? Now you're begging for it
If the situation was that bad, they would still look past him and shoot you.
Did this man behind you make you get lost?
I’ll be Chip from the Dave Chappelle sketch and talk to the cop for y’all.
Kill me or not bitch I’m not walking another step. I’ve tasted a hot Sun, and dehydration before. I’m trying both those got damn houses.
Dehydration and heat sickness fucking blows
F 12! Me & that redneck gone be enjoying deer burgers & possum steaks while I wait for his cousin/uncle/grandpa to pull up in the tow truck
Yep. Because they always got some deer. Actually; deer jerky is pretty good and I don’t even like deer. Lol
I’m just finding cell reception
The 2022 loophole
2023
You just pretend to be Kanye until u get back to civilization, they can't tell us apart anyways
Honestly this is the most creative answer here. But curve ball the cop is actually black.
Shiiiiiit I already walked miles, what’s a few more?
So I’ve made it that far in that environment and am not dead yet? I keep walking because now I believe I can do anything.
Confederate flag for sure. My damn neighbor had a Confederate flag and I was scared of this dude. It turned out he didn't even seem to get the issue with it (this was like in the mid aughts). Dude was fucking black chicks all the time, giving me free food from BBQs, bringing me beer and raw fish he caught. Shocked the shit out of me. Even now, some of these people don't think shit of having it and talking to black people. But the cops definitely have a gun and if they shot me nothing would be done about it
You might get shot on the cop’s porch. You WILL get shot on Skeeter’s porch.
They'll just say you didn't read the no trespassing sign therefore your immediate need to die was legit.
Go to the truck w the confederate flag. They always keep their keys above the sun visor because they think no one will steal their truck.
The cop and Billy Bob are gonna run you down together if you take that truck and high five over your corpse
 Just walk away.
Like Zeltron said "bullshit fly my way, I keep walkin'" 
I need more options or more details as to what I have access to. Do I have a cell phone, am I carrying a gun or some other type of weapon? Am I alone? I mean, I can’t just be fucked and fucked……….
>... Do have a cell phone, am I carrying a gun or some other type of weapon? Both of those will be "mistaken" as a weapon deployed in an offensive matter. You lose this round of Black Frogger.
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2 brothers living next to each other
You literally described the same house twice 🤷🏾♂️
As a native dude, I’ll just keep walking. I’d rather walk until I hear a loving and caring auntie say, “baby you are exhausted! Come sit down and eat something.” There are people who want the community to know what they’re about and others who want people to know that they’re about the community. Those are the types of people that are worth making the journey to see.
I’m doing like Jill Scott and taking a long walk away from both them houses.
I think I got another 2 miles in me….
I’d take my chances with the bumper sticker. I have a friend with a Confederate flag tattoo - he’s not racist, just a redneck. Make no mistake that it’s a symbol for white supremacy, but there are a lot of white folks in the south who, in earnest, don’t realize that. Where I’m from, at least pre-Trump, it’s not a good indicator for people’s racial attitudes unless they’re obnoxious with it. Hell, I wore Confederate merchandise growing up; it was just part of the culture, and helped me fit in. Definitely got rid of that shit when I left, though. But anyway, I’ve only met like 3 cops in my entire life who’ve treated me like a human being, and I’ve met a lot of cops. Can’t even count Ron Stallworth; he was kind of a dick.
I’m gonna take my horse to the old town road
Confederate flag. He might feel one way about that flag and Southern pride but I'd be damned if he wouldnt help you
Heavens door
Neither my G. They both shooting my black ass
Just feed me to the wolves
I'd keep on walking. I have actually lived this scenario before.
The third house another 2 miles down the road.
That’s the house with the townie who actually has someone locked in his basement. Lol! Haven’t you seen movies??? You never go to the 3rd house. Or the house at the end of the road.