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Would Obama go to a Redneck tractor pull?

Written by wdmll on

The other night I was watching a TV program about a Redneck wedding. The bride and groom at the end of the wedding reception, both got on a different tractor and engaged in a tug of war. The bride easily won. According to some people on the left, here we have a representation of a segment of white society that is considered one level above white trash.

But I thought back to my youth. Like Barack Obama, I was born in Hawaii. I also came from a broken family. I was bounced from town to town, school to school. I ended up as pre-teenager on a farm out on the plains east of Denver Colorado. I had my first .22 bolt action rifle and .410 single-shot shotgun. After school, my dog and I went rabbit hunting out in the field, behind the farm house. Later on, I had chores including driving a tractor from sunrise to sunset in the summer. In the fall we went big game hunting in the Rocky Mountains. But as I got older, I decided to go out to Kansas and live with my dad. By that time I had a ducktail, sideburns and wore engineer boots. Even though I came from a farm east of Denver, the word got around that I was a tough hoodlum from Denver. So I showed up in a 49 Mercury oil burner (it was not a two door) and my .22 cal handgun. With my Fonsi (happy days) look, I was able to talk my way out of a number of fights and still came across as a tough punk (I lifted weights and had a muscular build) The town had a malt shop but I hung out with the older guys at the pool hall and drank tomato beer. In those days fights were settled with fists not guns or knives. Soon after that I went into the Navy, spending time in New York, the Mediterranean and the home port outside of Jacksonville Florida. I was stationed on an aircraft carrier and served in the hospital corp. My duty station had a number of guys from New York, from a number of ethnic and racial backgrounds. My supervisor in the laboratory aboard ship was black. That was no concern to me, he was my superior and that was the way it was. I don’t remember any racial problems aboard ship, after all we were a diverse group, we were Navy swabies. Later on, after I got out of the service and stayed in the Jacksonville area, I found out that Northern Florida was part of the South with its segregation.

So I was exposed to separate accommodations for whites and blacks. I hadn’t seen anything like this in the small towns I lived in, in Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas. Sure, we had our racial preferences, but I imagine if I had grown up on the South side of Chicago I would have seen racial tensions between blacks and whites.

I grew up around guns used for sports, hunting and the belief of a person’s right to protect his family. There was very little gun crime even though a lot of people owned guns. As for religion, I'm not a religious person (more spiritual), I've been in a number of different houses of worship. My wife and I are middle class; she is college educated and has a successful career. I’m now retired, I didn’t finish college but I do have several scientific papers, lectures and publications under my belt. I have two daughters and one of them is a college professor (leans to the left). So I’m just a year or so beyond a GED, I drove a tractor, I own guns, and I have attended a number of churches and I was exposed to racial injustice. Makes me a Redneck right?

In the current presidential elections, with the constant references to white racists and other cutting remarks from the left, being called a Redneck is becoming a badge of honor. I might wear it next to my American flag lapel pin, the next time I’m out in public. I even know that there are fifty states and not fifty seven states even though I was born in Hawaii. My early life doesn’t include people like Bill Ayers or Reverend Wright. My youth did have some savory characters, but none of them were Marxists or ultra left progressives. But what do I know, I’m not an elitist from San Francisco nor am I an intellectual like Barack Obama, I’m only a tractor driving Redneck.

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