I also find it fascinating that the South can be fetishized so thoroughly, even as the South is villainized for being the root of all American problems (racism, intolerance more generally, etc.)

But they didn’t imprison him for “just his fantasies”. They imprisoned him because he conspired to kidnap a woman, which entails taking actual steps to plan and carry it out. He was convicted of conspiracy to kidnap.

The only thing missing is the tea cozy with “I’m not racist, some of my best friends are black” written on it.

Wasn’t part of the reason he was convicted because he used a database illegally to find women that were the subject of his fantasies? Was that misreported? Or was his using the database not illegal in itself but just demonstrated a more substantial step toward a crime so they could get him for conspiracy? Either way,…

And the most lyrical. Blacks and country music needs to be acknowledged a lot more.

The banjo wasn’t from Scotland, y’all.

I get that. I’m just saying, like, maybe don’t name the dress after a plantation, is all. I know the area is no longer home to slaves, but it does bear the name. And I just wanted to point out the name’s origins.

You know we’re talking about a DRESS on a LIFESTYLE SITE, right? Not the city. Not the neighborhood. A DRESS. That’s like naming a handbag after a concentration camp.

I don’t think you get to decide what’s right here. She’s naming a product after an area that is home to a plantation that had slaves.

Yep, named after the plantation.

Again, you keep replying to me, saying the same thing. THAT WHOLE TOWN OF BELLE MEADE IS NAMED AFTER THE PLANTATION. Just because it’s suburbs now doesn’t erase the past or the history associated with the name.

Again, that city is sitting on what was the Belle Meade plantation land.

And why do you suppose that is? Because of the Belle Meade plantation. That land is older than those suburbs.

The issue is this:

Some of the best, beautiful, and most delicious parts of Southern culture came from African Americans. It would be stupid, and oh so wrong, NOT to acknowledge that as part of the overall heritage and current culture.

I find it interesting that with all these girls putting together these The South 2015, brands or whatever, they’re always cutting out black people. As if black people don’t live in the south/ haven’t contributed greatly to southern culture in its current landscape. #sippintea

Celebrity “Lifestyle” businesspeople :

Because, as with so much that is art, there is no single objective answer as to what the artist was trying to do in this video.

It was kinda surreal seeing Nick DiPaolo there saying all sorts of awful shit that he actually believes, in something that’s attempting to be subversive.

Hey, I’ll take the big house, the beautiful farmland, and the dog! I do feel kind of oppressed by the treadmill (boring as heck) but I happily do the dishes and I can even make a hamburger without making it look like a child’s playdo project.

Interesting. I like her sound.