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i've been to this! my friend's family is obsessed with it. it is truly an institution there and a delightful car-free neighborhood springs up on the fairgrounds, nutritionally supported entirely by watermelon, loads of southern "salads" and deep fried garbage

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This sounds like a lot of fun.

Reminds me we need more events to bring my neighborhood together.

Yeah it's delightful! Must have something to do with all the rebel flags, and a complete lack of any non-white faces.

What's going on with your blatantly racist comments throughout this thread? Are you trying to be a jerk and/or get banned or is this your usual behavior? It doesn't seem to be which makes me curious to learn what has provoked this diatribe.

>What's going on with your blatantly racist comments throughout this thread?

Pointing out racism is not racism. It is received as such by racists though, (calling a white person racist is the closest they have to what hearing the N word feels like).

Sorry for the lack of a "/s". But yes, this hit a nerve unfortunately.

Ramesh you need to let that hate out of your heart. It will kill you.

Yeah, I'm the hateful one. Everyone point at and downvote the angry black man.

You guys will never understand. And that's why nothing will ever change.

> The fair’s inaugural picnic took place twenty-four years after the end of the Civil War. One of the founders was a Confederate veteran. In 1928, the second-place winner in one of the races was a horse named Ku Klux Klan. The pavilion has hosted a succession of segregationist governors and congressmen, and open support for the “Lost Cause” more or less continues to this day. On backstreets at this year’s fair, at least six cabins flew the Confederate flag. The fair allows it.

Why is it confusing that people talk about racism, when it flies free at the fair?

>Why is it confusing that people talk about racism, when it flies free at the fair?

I don't understand your argument. I didn't mention anything concerning talking about racism; it was their racist comments I was referring to.

For an annual event in Mississippi that start 24 years after the civil war, I would be more surprised if any of that wasn't true, it also doesn't make the people or the event racist. Its just a southern cultural heritage. The fact that only 6 cabins of hundreds had a confederate flag means that its kind of an insane things to pick on.

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