Empathy, my man, is not a sin...

It has served me well in all of life's endeavers... But beyond that, Sawz, I have perhaps experienced alot more than you... I've made a real effort to mix it up with people in the real world... When I say "mix it up" I don't mean argue... I mean, interact... That's why you don't find me here on the computer very much... I go out into the world everyday and mix it up...

You can learn alot by mixing it up...

Then if you take what you learn and add in a little empathy then you come away with a more "pro-human" view because it is based on your own personal experiances with folks and not what someone else wants you to think about folks...

When it comes to race, I have done quite a bit of mxing over the years and, for me, that has been a good thing... It started along time ago during the civil rights movement when I was still a teenager and my "commie-mommie" became involved with SCLC... And it continued with me going to a racially intgergrated college and then becoming a jail-house teacher in the Richmond City jail, and a drug counselor in the inner city of Ricmond and then another 15 years as a social worker working with black folks...

Does that make my opinionss more valuable than yers, Sawz, on the subjetc of race??? Well, maybe not more valuable bu arguablt more correct in the big scheme of any discusiion that Holder might get going...

As for this this thread, I've kinda gotten to where others have gotten in that the repetition is getting rather not worth posting so, unless there's something "new and improved" that needs addressing, I think I'll just take me a sabatical...

B~