Yeah, Mizzy, but it's the white people who control the media, the government and just' about everything else that is needed to carry US into a new era... Dr. King held the microphone for just as ,onmg as white America thought he should (or could) and then white America gunned him down...

Please don't apologize for what white America has done...

Yes, some white Americans have come a long way since the 60's but too many have "fallen back" on the ol' culture... The Southern culture where as long as "the Negro" acts nice then "the Negro" can be our buddy and we can go fishin' together... Maybe a ball game... But this is all dependent on "the Negro" to act in a subservient manner... I have seen it all my life...

But let "the Negro" have real opinions on why he or she can't get a job at... or be paid the same as... or go to this or that and "the Negro" falls in disfavor... That's the way it is in the South... I fear that's the way it is in other places, too...

I mean, if we are to ever achieve "intergration" then we're going to have to get the rednecks seperated from the nooses and the microphones... We had an elderly, and quite conservative, couple for lunch today... They are gardeners and we have that in common... But to hear what they had to say had me washin' dihes and cleanin' up the kitchen fir fear of screamin' them off the farm... Yeah, UI bit my tongue because the P-Vine is fond of the elderly lady because of their gardening interests but it took all my discipline to not make a major scene... All of it...

It is hard being white these days....Very hard... I can't apologize for all white people when I'd love to do so... I can do it here in cyberworld hopin' that some cyberspy don't turn me in and it comes known to my neigbors that I don't approve of their ideas abnout blacks being the problem... But I think that I can be a difference in bringing black performers into "Hooterville" in the hopes that theese rural Virgina whiote folks will have their cultures challenged.... It's about all I can do tho it ain't much on the local level...

Yeah, I live in an area where white kids would think a noose might be a childish prank... Where their parents would blame black people for over-reacting if some of their kids took offense... It ain't easy... We need to collectively, as a nation, say that Jim Crow was some of America's most screwed up history...

Bobert