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![]() I know it's a made up story, but the article linked really isn't surprising for that area... Galax and Bristol are fucked up areas, I'd assume Marion/Atkins is as well but I've only ever driven through.
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And nah, it's not a made up story at all. There aren't many black kids in this town (you should know that), and I'm related to about 80% of them. Most people just viewed this as a random act of hate, but everyone locally knows that the man accused of burning a cross (again, it was two twigs, not really a cross) did this after his ex-girlfriend's son vandalized his vehicle. They live across the street from one another on a place known as Iron Street. It's the ghetto of the town, and if someone tells you they are going there, then you know they're going to get meth. | |||
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I went to Virginia Highlands Community College, which is like 10 minutes from Bristol, so I was in out and out of that area a lot during my college years. My mom lived in Bristol briefly when I was a kid, so I would spend summers there and stuff. I went to the stateline bar in Bristol right after I got out of the ARMY, ended up getting tasered in the back and arrested for walking outside of a bar drunk, despite having a completely sober designated driver. Unlike Virginia where a public intox was like a $60 fine, they made me post bail, do 100 hours of community service, and pay thousands in fines and legal fees. Fuck Bristol TN. I've never gone back there. My family was so mad over that entire fiasco that they won't even drive through that state anymore. I'm not kidding when this happened, complete strangers were running up and screaming at the cops to stop because they didn't understand why that was happening to me. The judge was a complete asshole too, I remember being in a jail cell for days (again, a misdemeanor public intox) and when I went before a judge to get bond, he cursed at me and told me he's sick and tired of people from Virginia coming down here and ruining his state (it's the stateline bar, I literally thought I was still on the Virginia side, but apparently not), and that he would not grant me a lawyer since I had money to run around drinking, then I could afford a lawyer, yadda, yadda, yadda, just completely berating me, and I remember being really confused because I literally hadn't done anything or even really spoke and was super confused by what was happening. Fortunately I had a lot of money saved up since I just got back from my last deployment, and my parents backed me, and I was able to hire a really good lawyer, and showed up in the court room in a 3 piece versace suit that I had custom tailored while stationed in Italy, and it was insane how drastically different the judge treated me when he perceived me to be wealthy. Suddenly it was like he was my best friend. But because of that night, like to this day, it annoys me when people say white men are never victims of police brutality. And it's also why despite being against BLM, I usually side with BLM more often than not because 85% of cops are assholes. | |||
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![]() This story still sucks Joe, still has weird kkk simping “it was only a couple of twigs”. Story won’t be good until you go back to that bar and beat up kkk’s and Nazis for calling your black mom ignorant.
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![]() I gotta give it to you Recondo, u ree ally know how to trigger the nerds
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![]() Plot twist! when you go back to that bar to beat up the guys that called your mom ignorant it was the same kkk’s and Nazis that were counter protesting by your house a few days earlier.
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