The Way We Were:

Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi paints a picture that the average white southerner doesn't want others to see. Apartheid in Mississippi during the sixties. While young black men lived their lives in fear of being lynched for "not knowing their place," and black women lived in terror of being raped, young white boys lolled about ogling girls, oblivious.

Barbour's remarks during a recent interview reveal the blindness of many southerners and others who chose and continue to choose not to see beyond themselves. (See The New York Times story.)