In reference to ‘One reason I left rural America’

I had a real problem with the writer trashing the place he had lived. In the Old West, if you shot a man in the back, you were a coward. The premise of the letter is the race card. Apparently white people in Jefferson County are "keeping the black man down." I've lived here for thirteen years. I volunteered full-time at the thrift shop Wag the Dog for eight years. In that time, I met quite a few people, both black and white; I can honestly say, there was a small percentage of racists, both blac