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Entry: Primal Moments Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/primal_moments1#9607 Post contents: Indeed, Mr Cundiff. The Hillbillies (as I call them, my family being from the "hills" of Western North Carolina, but maintaining their Catholic Faith, despite having priests only pass through the area on rare occasions, and the closest Catholic church being in either Knoxville or Asheville for 100 years) and the American "Negro" share a common enemy: the powerful "WASP" establishment. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with being "White" or "Anglo-Saxon" or even "Protestant". The problems lie in being all of that, and being in the "establishment", and using that power and those ethnic connections to gain the land and labor and capital of the rightful owners. Our land, the Negro slave's labor, and our combined capital. Prior to The War, my family owned land, as did a rather large colony of Free Blacks in the same valley. After The War, my family's land holdings were reduced, being transferred to the Northern carpetbaggers, most of whom were Baptists (I guess the elite Episcopalians didn't bother with stealing land from the Hillbillies). The colony of Free Blacks were gone too. Their African Methodist Episcopal Church remains there to this day, empty. What happened to my ancestors neighbors descendants? The same thing that has happened to my own cousins: They have, more or less, become tools of the government to wreck havoc on the population, whether that population be here of "over there". The descendants of Africans and the descendants of Hillbillies; both wrecking havoc in modern America. Crack cocaine, meth, bastard children and venereal diseases. None of this was common 50 years ago. As for why did our Hillbilly Culture get "out of hand"? Why does violence permeate American culture today? Why is today's Elvis "Eminem"? It is, as I believe Mr Cundiff would agree, the result of eliminating our ancestors, our traditions from modern America. That is, Reconstruction. The Reconstruction of the South was the Reconstruction of America. Everybody suffered, much akin to everyone sufferring from forced desegregation in the South. Blacks, Whites, Northerners, Southerners, Yankees, Cavaliers, Protestants, Catholics, everyone is a victim of Reconstruction. And the Reconstruction didn't entirely stop in 1877. It still goes on today via such things as Wal-Mart and NASCAR and the NFL and "Country Music" and Evangelical "Christianity". Sent at: 2008 09 06