living in the Delta (Greenville, Clarksdale: home, moving, transfer)

[MonicaLB]

Hi, my husband and I just moved to Delta about 3 months ago, I'm originally from Dallas, TX and him from Salem, IL. well he is quite older than I but we end up falling in love and since then we've moved alot due to his promotions. I can honestly say this town is horrible, we cant go anywhere with out some one black saying something, these people here are simple minded and what I dont understand is we as African Americans have fought sooo hard for equal opportunites and for racism to stop, but here we are doing the same thing we are fighting against dont that make us hippocrites

[macompt]

I so understand what you are saying...My husband and I were transferred to Greenville from Texas 3 years ago (we moved back last year)...It was going back in time and they want to keep it that way...so sad, and the schools are just so bad...I feel you pain

[Delta Planter]

I am truly sorry to read of your plight; however, moving from Dallas to Mississippi, regardless of where, has simply got to be a shock to the system. My home is in the Mississippi Delta, Cleveland to be specific. I've never heard anything good about Greenville, but you never wrote just where in the Delta you are. Greenville? Greenwood? Inverness? Rolling Fork? Clarksdale? Tunica? There's lots of small towns and communities in the Mississippi Delta, some worse, some better.

Had your husband been given a choice of where to go, would either of you changed your mind? Did you go to that state, to the area where you are totally blind, or did you visit, look around, ask questions ahead of time?

Oh, I now live south of Fort Worth, BTW, having been transferred to the now closed NAS Dallas by the Navy way, way back in 1990.