Yeah, I think if we are capitalizing FL, it would probably make sense to capitalize Jesus too. After all, it's a name.

          But getting back to the issue of remediating racism, I don't think we can just sit around and wait for FL to happily show up. I mean, look how long the Jews have been waiting for whatever, or whoever it is for whom they wait.

          We need to plot a course of action with only the meager tools we have, in order to make the world a better place for everybody.

          I thought Howard Zinn's idea was a good one. Another one was put forth by a political figure, but I don't recall which one now, and that was to require every person graduating from high school to commit to two years of public service. That could be the military, the peace corps, the conservation corps, and a number of other organizations that maybe haven't been put together yet. That would creat a situation like the military has now, where inner city youths are thrown together in a barracks with kids from Montana, Mississippi, and Guam.

          Bobert has a really good point, though, as long as buffoons have their hands on the levers of power, all the good ideas in the world won't do you any good.

          There are good people out there, though, and some of them are in positions of influence. And Sam Brownback dropped out of the Republican primary yesterday. That has to be a good thing.