DBHEDD is reminding Georgians to ask their doctor about alternatives to opioid pain medication.

Alternatives such as over-the-counter medications and physical therapy can be used to manage pain.

More information at opioid response. info.

Hello again, my friends, and welcome

to the final episode of the Bitter Southerner Podcast

Second Season.

We are as always co-produced with the good people of Georgia Public Broadcasting and for

our grand finale this season, we are going to attempt to answer a question that

to every true-hearted southerner is among the most difficult ever.

Can the South be redeemed? There's a giant fly in the ointment of southern culture and for centuries white

southerners have tried to deny it or just ignore it, but it's deep in the

source material of every little piece, every single artifact of our region's

culture.

And the fly I'm talking about, of course, is slavery and the racial terror and oppression that followed it and which sadly follow it still.

Now I have to be open here.

I'm a white guy.

I'll be 60 years old 11 months from now.

But I've always known from the first minute I was exposed to it

that racism is wrong.

I was taught that all God's children were equal.

And I was lucky enough to have a family that taught me that.

But in general, white people in the South have been blind to the ways that we have benefited

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