Charges of racism flung

From the recent Daily News article on yet more school board shenanigans, this interesting bit:

A Massachusetts transplant who has been in Bogalusa for three years, Donnamarie Barker, the child of a racially mixed couple, said Bogalusa is not different than any number of other places in terms of racial tensions - citing her and her white mother's own experiences with discrimination in the North.

Oh. That's okay, then [sarcasm].

If I had a dime for every time some Southerner claimed moral equivalency - "They discriminate in the North, too!" - I'd be rich.

How about rising above other regions, Bogalusa? Instead of being proud you're as bad as they are.