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In response to Robert E. Lee posted by pink101:
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The "Souf" being way down yonder in Noo Orleeens.
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Virginians are much more dignified and, it would be the "Suth there, Suh!", and very curtly at that.
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I almost got arrested in Richmond along with four other teenagers for sitting in the back bench seat on a bus. It was July 26, 1949, and I was on my way to Paris Island with four other young guys. We had just enlisted the day before in the U.S. Marines and were traveling to the recruit camp in South Carolina. We had a several hour layover in Richmond and decided to spend some time there. Our first experience with the South and its evil racial prejudice. We got on an empty bus and went right to the back like we always did up here in Michigan. As long as there were no "culleds" in the bus, we were paid no attention. Then, the bus stopped to let on a new passenger--an elderly Negro woman who stopped and stood near the read door and would not sit down. The bus driver told us to leave the rear of the bus so that she could be seated back there. We said that we had paid and she could just sit down as we weren't going to move. The driver retorted that the bus wouldn't move until we changed our seats. Moreover, we were breaking the law and could be put in jail. We moved and the black lady sat down.
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Robert E. Lee. He was the man who released his slaves before Lincoln signed the proclamation, wasn't he?
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-- posted by pink101