@mekkaokereke a lesson that too many people didn't learn is that the "backwardsness" and poverty of the US South was directly related to how they spent their time oppressing their best and brightest, lowering the standard of living for everyone, instead of supporting all the ambitious and intelligent business owners regardless of their heritage. It requires accepting an enormous amount of self-destructiveness in exchange for a meaningless and fleeting sense of "superiority". Madness