Originally Posted By X-san Well, I signed up there and posted with (I thought) some useful comments. I was EXTREMELY careful to not write anything offensive, and I managed to write 10 posts before receiving THIS message... You have been banned for the following reason: Instantly started trolling the board posting all kinds of incinderary things. C-ya Date the ban will be lifted: Never I guess it'd be nice if they had managed to spell "incendiary" correctly. As far as I can tell, I was banned because of my screenname (Obama4Prez), but I can't be totally sure since I can no longer view the section I was banned from. Wow. I guess LP really is "liberal". So much for having a voice.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Quite the place, huh? I've tried to really tip-toe around there so I don't meet the same fate. But I'm sure that you saw, even with me being Trippy Lite, I was in a minority of one or two people on most threads. By the way... in case you hadn't guessed, 'Branson Bluesman' is NOTHING like his avatar. If you look in Webster’s under Redneck you will see his REAL photo. I guess you can see where I got my thoughts about southern prejudice. As I said, I don't think it is so much about the fact that Obama is black. As DVC_dad alluded to, whites and blacks have been living together in the south for a long time now and if nothing else have come to something of an uneasy truce. But the whole Muslim thing makes some of them absolutely foam at the mouth! A word in defense of Branson folks. I have received PM's from several board members who say that the posters in question ARE huge racists, and to please not judge all Branson people by them. There was one woman who posted on a thread that was deleted asking a person to go through their post and find one thing that was NOT racist. Then she defended me from some charges of 'attacking' people saying that I had been very diplomatic in what I said and that others had in fact attacked me. She went on to say that being a strong Republican there way no way on earth she would vote for Obama, but that she could not stand people making inflammatory accusations about Obama based on racist Internet garbage. So even their Republicans can be good guys. Hopefully the others are just a few bad apples.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Sadly, growing up in the Branson area, I'm all too familiar with this kind of crap. I remember a couple of events from when I was in high school (I graduated in 1995, to give you a little time-line perspective). I remember that a family who looked like they were at least partially black moved into the area my bus route covered, and if I remember right, they had two kids. Well, the bigoted brats that were on my bus didn't like that and swore that they'd get rid of the kids. I think they only rode our bus the one time, and that was it. The brats managed to scare them off. :-/ The second thing was actually a little more shocking to me. It involved one of my classmates, and he had always seemed like a really nice guy. He was involved with music and theater (we were in some plays together and had been fairly good friends as younger kids, played around Silver Dollar City together). I knew he was involved with Civil War reenactment (he was in one of the reenactment groups that was used in the movie Gettysburg), but what I didn't know was that he was racist. I remember he thought it was absolutely the coolest thing when the KKK adopted a section of the highway between Branson & Harrison AR for clean-up. I just could never look at him the same way. I don't want you to think that the area is all bad, but the sad thing is that there is that racist & bigoted core deep in the Ozarks. I've seen it toward blacks, towards Muslims, towards gay people. It seems like everytime we make some progress in the area, something else sets us two steps back.
Originally Posted By Elderp Branson as in Branson, MO? I wont try and post there. I am liable to get shot. I hear they lifted the extermination order in 1976, but I am not willing to try it out.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<What's with the Branson boards? Why the interest in them?>> DVC_dad made a post about Obama. I made a reply indicating that I thought southerners were prejudiced against him on account of his Muslim name. He took a little offense. I explained that I had gotten my impression from the Branson boards, and that if I had misjudged southerners in general I was sorry. My interest in Branson is because we recently purchased a Condo there and plan to retire there next year. I guess we will just enjoy the beautiful scenery and the pleasant weather and try not to pay any attention to those with the redder necks.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<What boards are you talking about?>> I posted a link in another thread. You could probably find them with The Google. I don't want too many people heading over there because it is a relatively small group of regular posters and it wouldn't take them to long to figure out who was sending them the new traffic! ;-)
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^^^^ anything stronger than WE and really I'm not interested. but the bigotry you mention is alive andwell in many places -- I left Yahoo financial boards years ago for that reason. I have not visited the Branson boards - nor do I intend to, but they couldn't be worse that the hatred - ( also note no swearing filter ) - that I read on supposedly financial boards who actually talk precious little about that.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "My interest in Branson is because we recently purchased a Condo there and plan to retire there next year. I guess we will just enjoy the beautiful scenery and the pleasant weather and try not to pay any attention to those with the redder necks." Oh, well, good luck with that. Stick to talking about the weather with your neighboors. I did go look at the boards out of interest, but didn't register, and found that the topics were all pretty boring especially for somebody not living or interested in Branson.
