CAUTION
                         Bobert Rant

Well, I've been talkin' about this on various threads going back to my coming to this joint some, ahhhhh, many years ago but, folks...

... this ain't about one particular case here but out entire culture... We collectively ***refuse*** to revisit our history in a rsponsible mammer, discuss slavery, discuss Jim Crow and discuss a way to "repair", (yeah, friggin' repair...) what white people have done to black people...

Bill Clinton tried to get a discussion going back 'round '96 but met with the same ol' Southern knee-jerk reaction... That reaction has become almost as predictable as the sun coming up in the east and settin' in the west... Well, I get along fine with them folks and I don't think I should pay for nuthin' my grand-daddy did...

I'm so sick of hearing this horsesh*t mantra that I could puke...

Of course we need to talk about what our grand-daddies did... We need to get beyond white arrogance that all is well... All is not well... We are perpetuating the same mythology... We are perpetuating the same culture where ehite kids don't get it that puttin' up a noose is more than just just a high school prank... If these kids want to do pranks then do them as intergarted people and go off and steal the other high school's mascot suit... That is a prank... A noose is not a prank...

Hey, I know what I talk about here... I was brought up in "liberal" Northern Virginia... Hey, racism was rampant... I remember fighting with black kids from the "black' high school... Why???... Danged if I knew then but I fully understand it now... Racism is so much part of the US culture that white folks think because they go see a black performer that makes them "whole" and "pure" and so, so friggin' liberated??? Then soemthin' like this happens and folks line up along racial lines...

I'm sick to my stomach of white people thinking they are so "classless and free when they are all fuckin' peasants as far as I can see" (John Lennon)... Yerah, John hit the nail on the head... This is a white problem that has spilled over to our balck brothers and sisters...

White people need to have a converstaion... White people need to seperate the mythology from history... White people have the power to bring about a conversation... Black people don't... White people are on trial here in Jena, folks... Yeah, white people will do everything in their power to try the divert attention away from their part in culture they have created where white kids think it's "cool" to atogonize black students with symbols of hatred...

Like I said, Jena is a white problem... White people are on trial here... White mythology is on trial... White lies are on trial...

This, I believe, is what Dr. King would be saying...

Rant over...

Bobert