Well, Rigs, Howard Zinn is absolutely correct but lets getr back to the politics of education... The folks who have made it their crusade to control our schools are the same folks who blindly vote Republican... These are not independent thinkers... Thay are "rule people"... Yeah, lots and lots of rules... R%ules, rules and more rules... And don't tell my kids about sex... That's my job... Even tho they never quite getting around to actually doing it, mind you...

Yeah, this is School Board, USA... Bunch of reactionaries... Especially in the South and Midwest... Bunch of Nazis... And so the schools continue to churn out rote-memory-nazi kids who can't think...

This is the real deal... I have no faith that this will change in my life time... It hasn't in the last 40 years, that much is for sure...

Now as the FL???

Yeah, beyond the strickness of our public school system, people of all ages yern to be challenged... Yeah the "game" is everything... That is one thing that schools do well... Games, games and more games because games are like war... You have winners and loosers and this is the USA and we always win... Right???

So the next FL will make it a game... Dr. King, in a way, made it a game... Yeah, the next FL will figure out the dynamics of social change and use the current culture against itself, much they way that Dr. King did... It ain't rocket science... The template is there... The candidate??? Maybe there and maybe not... Time will tell... Onbe thing is for sure and that is the USA in in some deep sh*t on many fault lines an' if it is to survive it's own feelings of importance it will have to face it's weakest links... Institutional racism has to be at the very top of the weakest links list... If we win this one we will have changed out collective thinking and be able to better serve as a role modle for the rest of the world...

Right now, we are sending out the wrong message...

B~