I do what I can, but I can't be the fL.

                   I agree with Bobert that Bush has been so awful that people have been able to see where that line of thinking will take us, and folks are turning away from it.

                   I have a different take on "hate crimes." I don't think you should criminally prosecute somebody for what they are thinking. I do think the principal was right in suspending the students. But it gets confusing after that. The kid who was beaten wasn't involved in the nooses, so the connection with the nooses to Mychal Bell was really conveyed by the adult community. They should have known better, and that's the scary part.

                   I also agree with Bobert that much has been lost over the course of the last three decades. It looks to me like this insanity started with Reagan, and hopefully it will end with Bush II.

                   As far as what to do about it, I think the next step involves a more sober look than Dr. King gave us. I don't disagree with anything he said, but he was a man of goD, and while that brought him an audience in the 1960's, I think we need to find a larger venue now.