Good line A. Caitrin, I certainly would have missed that message in Badu's songs myself if I hadn't done some research on that gang when some of my students were being recruited in our facility, mostly by a social worker, believe it or not. Interestingly, I was called a racist by people who knew better when I studied the situation and made a report to the principal about it. At the time I didn't know he was an idiot. I listen to all kinds of music in languages I don't even understand, so they could be singing about anything and I wouldn't know. I just heard a band on NPR yesterday that writes songs in language unknown even to them. Sounded pretty cool, though. It's a complicated issue, but I've seen the damage myself and I'm not really interested in the details anymore. A disease is a disease, even if it has feelings.

Chet