posted June 13, 2019 #
Great new episode of
Nashville Demystified, albeit a bit out of the normal format. Host Alex Steed has been traveling and on his way back from the airport, his Uber drive used the n-word
twice, in casual conversation. As this is about Nashville, you may think this to be common but it's absolutely not. Sure there are likely some circles in which rampant, transparent racism is common but the majority of the city does not operate that way. It is a unsettling reminder of people's true selves.
I'm actually reminded of an Uber ride that
I had recently in which our driver told us that he moved to Nashville from California to avoid giving his kids vaccines. The conversation only went downhill from there in which he told us that we were likely smarter than him but had also been brainwashed by the liberal education system. 9/11 definitely came up as well. Suffice to say, it was upsetting.
These problems are not, by any means, restricted to The South. Alex's experiences in Nashville also exist in his prior home, Portland, Maine. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. It's a good episode, particularly as a jumping off point for conversations about race, the marginalized and white male fury.
