SHADES OF BLUE AND GRAYYears ago, as a founder and board member of WHIL, I made a tour of other public radio stations on behalf of the CPB. I spent a few days in Cambridge and was shocked at the blind arrogance directed towards me as a "Southerner". Now, mind you, my hair was kinkier and longer than Jimi Hendrix's, my attire and politics were vintage Fugs and Allen Ginsberg, my heritage Puerto Rican. Yet, here I was listening to the stupidest comments in the world from the supposedly smartest people on the planet, who apparently couldn't see me for who I was. So, while I don't necessarily (completely) agree with him, I love this very articulate writer's response to The Atlantic ARTICLE. I especially like his comments about "the instinctive, knee-jerk hatred of the white southerner that is exhibited by most of the lefty elite media. It's pathological really. It's a similar, but much more intense form of the loathing displayed towards the white working class, and for similar reasons. You guys are the ones that hear dog whistles, not us."
