Isn't it funny how the people who wear the merchandise of the confederate flag (and therefore advocate most for white supremacy) are the bad white people? And by bad I don't mean evil, I mean the lesser white people. The other day I was driving to my parent's house around Pickens, SC – a place that resembles exactly how it sounds – when a truck turned onto the same street I was waiting at the stop sign. I had no idea this truck was going to make that move since their blinker was not on. Well, now that I think about it, the entire front bumper didn't even exist. The truck stopped midway through the intersection, blocking all traffic from each direction, and not to my knowledge, was attempting to get into the driveway which I was blocking by waiting at the stop sign. This created a standoff, each one of us waiting for the other to make a move. In my mind, however, I thought this truck was just playing dumb as was my perception of it since there was no bumper on the front. After about ten seconds, I looked up into the truck to see what the deal was. The man driving the truck, who was wearing a camouflage hat with a confederate flagon it (terrible stylistic combo), could have easily motioned to me that he needed to get by me. This man had one eye about two times the size of the other, a jaw which looked like it could fall of his cheekbones at any moment, and looked 16 and 40 at the same time. But instead of motioning me, he sat there with zero expression on his face (except for continuous jaw movement which I think was a method to keep it attached), looking at the ground, looking behind my car, looking at the ground, and so on. I don't think this man was so annoyed with me that he did not want make a motion, rather I believe the man was either too stupid to understand he needed to motion me or incapable of making such a motion. So another ten or so seconds went by and I finally realized what was going on. So I dramatically rounded the truck and traffic began to flow freely again.
But that twenty odd second interaction had a significant impact on me. At first, I felt bad for the man driving the truck. He was obviously poor enough to not afford a front bumper on his truck and his face would make even the nicest of people squirmish. But then I remembered his hat, the camouflage confederate hat. And then it all clicked. That is why there are so many racist white people, especially in places such as Pickens, SC. It's the bad white people. They find it so hard to look at themselves in the mirror or hate their circumstances in life and outsource that hate towards a target, which for them is black people. Maybe it's because that's all they know and all they've been taught through the generations or maybe it's something else. But instead of hating the real problem, the government, they have found reason to put their hate towards another race.
