I'm trying to express my rage in response to that WaPost about Tim Scott in an intelligible way. It touches a nerve because I've mostly encountered the same kind of ignorant dismissal of actual life in the south for people like my family from people who claim to be progressive.

For example, in a thoroughly unproductive spat over guns with a mom blogger from the northeast, I had to take pains to explain why my grandmother had to keep and often bear arms to protect her family and property in the rural south.

Her husband died young and she was left with nine children and a couple hundred acres to manage. At first, she was considered ripe for predation by her neighbors. A little stolen land and poaching here, some overpriced goods and shady lending from banks there...

I don't know how she kept what she did. I don't know how her parents did it. These people were strong and smart in a way I struggle to grasp.

So, for Glenn Kessler and the like to read a few census documents and surmise that a black person in SC who had some land that they worked themselves in the mid-late 1800s was an easy living rural aristocrat is deeply insulting.

once again, this thread is better written and covers my points. https://twitter.com/patchfarmstead/status/1385604614872047616?s=20

aight, imma chill.