It has been below freezing all week. I am still glad that I do not live in the South.

I dunno if there's something in the water cooler over at rawstory, but jesus christ the feed today reminded me how much I hate the idea of living anywhere below the Mason-Dixon.

First up: A bunch of Missouri high school girls played a game in blackface! We are assured that "they didn't mean anything by it" and "they just weren't thinking".
By the time you make it to high school, if you still think that there's a time and place for blackface, this isn't an "oversight" issue anymore. It means that your parents and community did a shitty job, and that you are a piece of human garbage.

Next! Kentucky fire chief tells a deputy "We ain't takin no niggers here." Seeing how they'd just been in a car accident, and that the deputy and crew changed a tire for the other (white) person involved in the accident, and gave him an escort to the fire station, this gets bonus points for being racist and also a total dick move.
When questioned about being a racist dickhead, the chief then asked an asian reporter if she spoke English. Multiple times.
Stay classy, Kentucky! Also, die in a fire, you sorry cumbags.

Next! In Houston, a customer wrote "Don't want to listen to a faggot through my whole meal" on their receipt to complain about having a gay server. Wisely, the restaurant manager chose to apologize to the customer, and the server was fired/quit. He also came out to his parents, so they could at least hear it from him before seeing in on the 9 o'clock news.
I'm sure that went splendidly.
That something like this went down at a place as high-class as "Kelley's Country Cookin'" will be a shock to you all, I am sure. But it's comforting to know that Houston homophobes have a place where they can have a meal without being exposed to the queers. If I had a way to create salmonella outbreaks using the internet, I would have a busier weekend ahead of me.

Last for now: Virginia school officials tweet that interracial dating is every father's worst nightmare. This one I have some experience of, in a reverse kind of way. On multiple occasions, parents of various girls I have dated have accused me directly of being the anti-christ. I also have a bunch of racist shithead family members, that, while they hate the blacks, didn't have any problem with me dating asian, mexican, or indian women.
Attention Virginian stumble-fuck school officials, there are plenty of good reasons to hate people you god-damned troglodytes. Spend 10 minutes talking to someone, and you can probably come up with something. You're just being shiftless lazy stupid assholes by continuing with the skin color thing.