First of all, I'll repeat that Colin Powell would, IMO, be the best choice for Secretary of State that Obama could make... He knows the players and he has the humility to admit that he was on the wrong side of history over Iraq...

Secondly, my hat's off to MiziAzizi... Glad you didn't elect to dump that post... It's important for everyone to understand that for many of us who came up in the 60's we are in the midst of a social experiement... Okay, I'm kinda biased (no, not prejudiced) to think that we are doing okay... Sure, we could be doing better but, all in all, we are hopefully about to elect Barak Obama and I think that, at the very least, gives out nation high grades in the experiement...

With that said, I am disappointed with the South... I grow tired of hearing my fellow Southerners sound all smug about how they have lived with Black folks longer than Northerners and they get it when it comes to acceptance... As far as I can see there is a lot more talkin' of the talk than walkin' of the walk...

And sometimes not even the talkin' of talk... I pick up my Washington Post every morning on the way to work at a gas station/general store where a lotta White folks hang out... I try to use my sense of humor and my status as a local musican to cajole the folks who hang out in there but many are very racist... They know I am working for Obama but there are a couple who go out of their way to say that they would be very happy if Obama were killed... One says he'd supply the rope... This is my world... Yeah, I say, "Hey, man, don't be like that 'er I'm gonna have to have Barak come in here and talk with ya'" which gets the usual laugh but this guy may think he's jus' makin' a joke but...

Anyway, I'm glad you didn't erase that post, Miz....

B~