There's a line in Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" that always makes me smile -- "There's good people in Alabama"...because it's true. I worked in Birmingham 1982-85 and some folks there are still my friends 35 years later. They were/are smart, open-minded people who... 1/3
...liked to slam dance to the Jim Carroll Band or make fun of backwoods sheriffs. I never lived in Texas, Mississippi or Florida but I know it's the same way - lots of good people doing their best amid a bigger, backwards culture that can elect the worst leaders. It's because 2/3
...of those great humans that I never damn an entire state, or wish it ill health, or catching a virus, etc. Focus anger where it belongs - on hate, bigotry and the politicians and hucksters who exploit it. Pray for the many good people in those places, and their good health 3/3
Oops -- just to clear something up (as raised by a reader), the "There's good people in Alabama" line is from their 1976 live LP that I listened to religiously in HS, not the studio version most folks are familiar with
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