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- Dec 4, 2011
It's my opinion that it appears the Quilt Code is complete fabrication based on the inventive powers of a very gifted modern saleswoman. I also think based on personal experience that making "reproductions" of this sort of Underground Railroad signal quilt tends to bring out the worst in Southern white ladies, who like to play pretend that their personal ancestors were involved in the Underground Railroad, or that they themselves would have been if they lived back then, when more often their ancestors owned slaves and they seem more likely to have been enthusiastic Confederate supporters like everybody else in their neighborhood. There's something downright creepy about a whole roomful of elderly white ladies who don't know a single black person well enough to have them over for dinner, paying money to sit around in a quilt shop and pretend to be helping the Underground Railroad.
I guess if a person can swallow one lie, then can swallow any others they want to.
How far into the south do they imagine the underground railroad ran? Not too far, I hope. I'd hate to picture little old ladies from Alabama or Georgia doing this, and tripling the lie. Pennsylvania, Ohio or New York is bad enough.