A rabble-rousing editorial writer in some big city somewheres whines some more about the "poor coloreds." Aren't you getting tired of this race-baiting by these filthy poverty pimps?The Madison County Record, the sprightly weekly newspaper published at Huntsville, the county seat, broke the news first, but the nature of it guaranteed some national attention. Some 100 workers from Pennsylvania, about a third of them African Americans, came down to help the local electric cooperative restore power after the devastating ice storm last month took down just about every power pole in the county. They worked tirelessly clearing trees and putting up poles and lines in the ice and freezing rain to try to speed power to people. For their trouble, they were harassed and threatened by roving groups of young men shouting racial epithets* and pointing guns at them. The county sheriff said the young men would drive around the work teams waving Rebel flags and cursing the blacks. The workers were frightened enough to contact the sheriff’s office in nearby Washington County. Madison County is all white.Oh, oh, it was white folks baitin' the coloreds? Uh, I mean, demonstratin' racial pride? And honorin' they-uh heritage? Lak' that ol' Jew bitch on the tee vee use tuh say, "Wal, nevuh mind, tha-yats differnt."
*Latin for "nigger."
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