...I'm actually more mad that there is a university in the United States that bans interracial dating. WHAT THE FUCK, guys. I'm also mad about the fucking Confederate flag, but I'm a little bit desensitized to it now that I've been living in the South for a while.

The family's ownership of slaves isn't really a big deal to me, but his cousin's casual statement in her book is kind of irritating me now. Does she mean she believes in the "benevolence of [her] forebears as masters"?... I do understand that some slaves had better lives than others, blah blah blah, but they were still slaves. I've just known way too many white people who considered slavery not that bad, the slaves weren't mistreated, etc. Tori (sister) nearly got kicked out of a history class for correcting a teacher too frequently on those kinds of comments re: slaves, Native Americans, etc.