LOL....

No, I tried to get this discussion going on ion the "poverty thread" and, geeze, at least half a dozen other threads over the years and it never, ahhhh, takes off...

Hey, I don't mean to sound like I'm comin' down on anyone persaonlly here... What I see here in Mudville is prrdy much indicative of wnat I see in the general population...

This thread is very much about "race" and it is very much about how white people tend to line up when they are told "It's about race"...

I read a good article in the Style section of the Washington Post today bout how school teachers are so unprepared and uncomfotable in talking about race, slavery, Jim Crow, etc...

I don't think folks here are any different... And I undertsnad that... I really do.... I mean, we have had Southern states who have pushed back apologies for slavery, for lynchings, etc... And I don't think the Midweat is far behind the South in bigotry...

I'm sorry if any one Catter takes offense to what I am saying here but it isn't intended to be an indictment of any one individual but and indictment of white America in general...

White America doesn't get it....

If white America had gotten it, then after the nooses were hung from the tree then the teachers would have altered their curriculum to speak to the history of the civil rights movement.... This is waht educators do when they fell free to do so... But they didn't fell free...

And we here in Mudville don't either... I have offered my ideas about "repair"ations over and over here in Mudville and purdy much either been ignored or told that "Hey, I ain't gonna pay fir nuthin' mah grand-daddy did"...

I ain't gonna beat this horse but so much here but a real discussion ain't been had here...

B~