@StillIRise1963 I'm no expert on FL ...but this is what I observed while I was there: 1) people are just resigned to what comes and take a sort of...we'll get by approach; 2) even in the Black community there seems to be a rejection of anything too confrontational. I met so many "go along to get along" people it was mind boggling. Even my own relatives there have become that way and they are NOT from FL. 3) when I first got there in '93 people still lowered their eyes when whites passed by....
@fulanigirl @StillIRise1963 As a longtime, off and on (currently on) Floridian, this is all too true.
Most of my family has lived here more than 50 years now, and all of my family considers me to be an antagonist loudmouth because I can't stay silent and keep pushing them to think and act differently.
It's a waste of time, but I keep trying.
@ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 Keep trying. You never know which young person will hear your words and feel them resonate.
@fulanigirl
Its the perputual condition and tempermant of the south, "be happy with what you got, toughen up and deal with it"
i think it's partly because living in the south conditions you to a way of life that's difficult to escape from (just not prepared for life in different places/cultures), and party "misery loves company (people need community so they don't want you to leave, dont wanna be alone, dont wanna feel like they failed where others succeeded)
@BigAngBlack @fulanigirl @ricardoharvin @StillIRise1963 Whereas the White population in the South tends to be on edge, aggressive, and looking for confrontation. May go all the way back to the Scotch-Irish penal colony of Georgia.
