Some harsh words were said all round during the past week: about the South and  about Southerners, about those who - whether ancestrally or personally -- have been hurt in the past by an evolving, but still flawed southern culture.  Those of us who participated in these threads agreed on little, but we did demonstrate that all persons involved in the ongoing adjustments in perspective of both whites and African-Americans have both a reasoned response, as well as a visceral response, as we have had since our histories were joined by the advent of slavery.

I'd like to leave the next round of that discussion for another day. Instead, I'd like to draw the attention of all of you who have not already read it to the five part series written in the NYT by Errol Morris, entitled "Whose Father Was He?"  A series that raises peripheral, essential issues about scruples, about values, about what means something, if not everything, no matter where one calls home.

It is my understanding that multiple links at TPM, per thread, are non starters, so I connect you to part five of this series, hoping that you will scroll down to the list of parts one through four so that you can start at the beginning:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/whose-father-was-he-part-five/

Let me know what you think about the context, not to mention the heros and villains, that are illustrated in this series. Because I'm interested, as I believe y'all are interested,  in the double helix that evolves and surrounds a mainline of truth.