A rich "legacy" indeed, that Confederacy...

For all the awful, offensive, racist claptrap mentioned in this story about the treatment of two white teachers who slept with their African-American students, what I find so painfully, awfully, unspeakably awful isn't just the fact that, as Lonnie Randolph said, had it been two black teachers instead of white teachers, they probably wouldn't be treated as favorably (although that is offensive).

What's particularly insidious in this story is not just the buried fact that there is a KKK museum in the town where one of the teachers taught, and you can buy such charming shirts as .

What I find worst in all of this (on a strictly personal level) is the fact that the Redneck shop exists, selling pro-KKK paraphenalia that, according to the google summary (apparently, even the redneck shop sells online), offers "Flag's,Bumper Sticker's,Tshirt's,Decals,If a redneck needs it we have it. Confederate to Klan." (And, in fine redneck form, it doesn't even know how to use an apostrophe.)

Thank god there's a store that caters to those intersted in buying things from racist-lily-white to aryan-white. Another fine standard in the South's "legacy"....