Hey,

RU black or white? I don't have all day to read your self-righteous diatribes. And you most certainly made a reference to my only thinking white European males should be allowed to live, having confirmed this, I guess you are black.

(Maybe it was some other ALI that just writes like you.)

Are you ashamed? Hey, Mr. Worldly, have you ever heard of Larry Elder, well he is some one you should try to be like, but that would be to hard wouldn't it? Have to face the truth, instead of hiding in your perceptions and narrow vision of life, which you have constructed from your limited little view and life experiences. (Oh yea, and elitist academic education)

Those books they taught you with are always accurate aren't they?!? About as accurate as you. Giggle, giggle.

This is not a rehearsal, come out of your closet or your life of quiet desperation will be the legacy you leave for your bully son.

Sorry about your violent son. Did you know that a child's parents (or parent depending on the family) are the single most influential behavioral role model between the ages of 3 and 9. How did your son learn of this brutish behavior? Probably the "punched till you pissed your pants and came back to win" fable.

Speaking of fables, did you know that Swedish people actually believe in trolls? You know, like living under bridges in the countryside?

How amazing the human mind is, it's very plastic nature can be stretched to believe anything. Hmmm......

Not to change the topic from psychosis to reality, but that new movie Black Hawk Down is coming to a theatre near you. I might fancy a go at it; after all it is about my old unit. I don't expect a realistic depiction of the actual events; after all we are dealing with Follywood.

I believe you may have poked fun at our hero's that died, and their performance in Mogadishu.

Well, it's like this 12 Rangers Died, and somewhere between 1200 and 1500 Sammie’s were turned into steaming piles of meat.

Using the most conservative numbers, for every 1 Ranger that died, 100 Skinnies went to Allah with all the virgins dancing around.

A pretty good kill ratio don't ya think??

Well Ali, I really gotta go. I volunteer coach at a high school wrestling team part time, and need to go over tomorrows practice schedule. We have our first dual meet Tuesday. We will win. As always.

I Remain,

GOD

PS

West Point Grads died or became casualties in greater numbers than all other officers and NCOs in Viet Nam. Another factoid for your little brain saturated with confused synaptic misfirings.

pps

Maybe we should get together for a cup of coffee sometime? Whadda ya think? Live near, N.Y. or Charlotte? Don't worry I won't hurt you.

Hey Dog,
You r absolutely right. I did say that phrase(white european males). I'm sorry I didn't see it because I was pressed for time and thought I had read all my former post but I certainly stand by it as well. I also did wrongly poke fun of the Mogadishu rangers but my apology was swiftly manifested. I guess there aren't enough sorries for that.

Now about your unneccessary question. I thought I answered it. But I guess you need it plain, so yes I am an African-American male, but I wasn't aware we were on a dating board. And if you're gonna ask me out you gotta be sweeter than you've been you cad.

Shame, my friend, is never something I feel when I see my parents, or look in my mirror. But neither is pride the feeling. It seems pretty foolish to have these feelings over a non-achievement. I certainly feel no pride when I look at my shoe size or my ....er, you get what I mean. That's the place I've reached in life. That blissful little location between between historical perspective and todays reality. This all came together in my rotting skull while standing at the altar of the Parthenon, atop the Acropolis, which is surrounded by the subsection of Athens known as Plaka, which is adjacent to the port city of Piraeus, in the country they call Hellas.

Yup, I've heard of Elder, Watts(JC), Rasberry, Rice(Condi), and most certainly Powell(I guess to you, he doesn't count). I've even heard of that gentleman from CA, with the radio talk show, who comes on CNN and foams at the mouth on occasion. I also remember the smirking congressman from Connecticut who spent all his interview time beatifying Jesse Helms. It's hard to know them all as they are the new political growth industry but we all meet in DC, at a think tank, to formulate our plan for world domination, the enslavement of "white European males" and exchange fried chicken recipes. You gotta try Condi's fricassee recipe. Seriously though, I must say I'm an admirer of Colin Powell so don't bother sending me that Elder poster. Some of those others are so conservative that it seems that if it were 140 years ago they'd be fighting the "war of northern aggression" with a rebel flag in their hand. Oh yeah, why wouldn't you like them?

I'm sincerely sorry to seem elitist. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some of the most brilliant people I've met in life weren't educated or even wealthy(Hey John maybe you're better off). One of the most profound experiences I've had in life was a conversation with and aged homeless man at a LIRR(Long Island rail road) station while on my way to school. It was like an encounter with Buddha. The problem with being uneducated, in terms of dispersal of your thoughts, is that you usually don't have ready access to publishing. As we can see, that's all changing. But please don't knock education. It's something that can enhance what is already there and the books, outside of the sciences, are pretty much opinion that you're welcomed to disagree with and disprove.

My son the bully, seems like someone you'd be proud of. My son the defender of a deformed friend, seems like someone I'd be proud of and I am. Maybe he learned to be aggressive at his friends house while watchin the WWF. Because he sure can't watch it at home. His rasslin hero is Stone Cold Steve youknow. He tells us about it all the time but we don't want to be perceived as rascist so we haven't curtailed his visits.

Man oh Man I wish that story were a fable. I used to be a really good looking guy. When I look in the mirror I see a nose that looks like a GP race track. Now I'm only good looking. The cheer leaders used to say I resembled O.J. It was then very good thing to look like him. As far as looks are concerned I guess it still is. My knees are also a constant reminder of my past follies.

I've also gotta go my friend as you can see by the time I've gotten a little carried away and just when I've got a deadline and my daughters dance recital in the same day.

By the way what happened to the "capitalistic" ventures? It's not that I'm not proud of you for coaching.

One love,

AA

P.S. It seems there would be a lot more West Point grads in the fray than others. Maybe that's the reason for the higher numbers? I hope my synaptically soporific synopsis is not subversive?

P.P.S. Any time mate, anytime. And I've stopped shivering long enough to realise your bark is worse than your bite.

Hey John,
Here's an interesting "factoid" that's right in your sphere of expertise. They just said, on the news, that a few hundred car owners, whose cars were at ground zero, won't be getting back their cars because of contamination. They're taking them to Fresh Kills in Staten Island. I wonder why they've been letting people work down there as well as going back to their homes. It seems like it's the same contamination to me. Hmmmmm....the plot thickens.

AA.

Ali,

Since you mentioned it, what's your take on O.J.?

You already know mine.

Dog

Hey Dog,
For some one who doesn't believe in education you sure like to give out exams.

The whole issue of O.J. could be a pretty cogent course, at any university, on modern American race relations and sociology, so with that in mind, I will try to tread very precisely(and probably carefully) over this landmine laden course.

To be sure, the experiences that my community have had, at the hands of the law have leaned decisely to the negative. The case of Rodney King was only rectified because of videotape and probably because the cinematographer was "trustworthy". And this happened on the second go because a Simi Valley jury didn't think swinging a dangerous blunt instrument at someones head like you're at a batting range was a crime. Maybe this was so because the accused were their own. The vast majority of us, in the community, know at least a few such cases that weren't resolved and a large minority know a sizeable group who were innocently accused and some even jailed.

With the contextual trappings noted, we can go on to the matter at hand - The man and the case.

The athlete is somebody I admired and was enthralled by. He was a thrill to behold. Conversely the man was and is not somebody I have any love or respect for. He was no pillar of the community as far as I could see, he seemed to have abandoned all involvement in it. So I see no redeeming factors in him in that way.

The case as, as far as I could see, was just another celebrity case that was overhyped and over watched. He was not proven guilty and so was not supposed to do any time. This tends to happen when you have loads of money to get the best legal rep.(ie. the Von Bulow case).

Where I'm at loss is why everybody got so bent out of shape about it. Black Americans seemed enthralled by the fact that one of their own was able to use the system to their benefit and white Americans seemed determined to make him pay and, some would say, those who resenbled him. I definitely noticed a stark difference in treatment after the case.

As someone on the other side of the fence and because of the the legal experiences I've had and explained, I can understand the reaction of my community, but I've tried to rationalize the attitude of Euro-America and it just looks bad. All the rules that count were followed and yet people were pilloried for being on the wrong side. For instance, I never hear anybody decrying the ethics and morality of the lawyer for the Melendez/Menendez boys in either of their cases, and the original lawyer(I can't remember her name) was so pugnacious in court, but everybody has a Johnny Cochran insult.

In any case, I think O.J. got away with one but because of being wealthy and having good lawyers and I've seen a whole lot of that in America. The big question is why were some people more upset about this than usual?

I'm sure you guys are wondering why have I deliberated on this question so long. The answer is because it is instuctive of what we've been discussing for the last few months: Equity/inequity and justice. When you think/know you haven't been getting equity or justice you are quick to cheer any form of justice one of your own can muster. You tend not to be picky. Even poetic justice works for you. Take a long, hard look at Northern Ireland for an example.

Well since I've lost a lot of precious sleep answering this one here's one for you my friend DOG, what's your take on the Amadou Diallo case.

Anxiously awaiting your probably strident reaction.

AA

to John,
I am curious about your message on 30th november.
Maybe I am missing something but I don't get the idea. Are you pointing that the people who wants to be happy (there is a question of definition)can achieve it only by using drugs? You are writing that there is a war among the people who wants to do things right and whose who wants to be happy. I don't think these are contradictory things - one can be happy doing things right.
I don't know the scale of the drug production in the Middle East, but I don't think that "everyone there is producing or using or selling drugs". Anyway the same can go for the USA and Europe. The media is speaking about drug problem, especially among the kids.
You can bomb Afganistan and other Middle East but it won't solve the problem of drugs, because as far there is demand there will be supply. People will grow drugs in other places or produce them in laboratories.
I do not agree that the only way to be happy is using drugs. Actually I have never seen them (only in the movies) and I am offended when some people are saying that EVERYONE has tried them once.
I was asking BIG questions since my childhood: like the title of one Gogen's painting:"Who we are? where are we from? where are we going?"; what is the purpose of life? what creates human's personality (genes; environment etc)? what is happiness?
The last one was very important question, I was thinking about it very regular and couldn't find answer. Until one fine morning I realised that I stoped asking this question...because I was feeling happy. The funiest part was that it was during a very hard but creative work: I was sleeping 3-4 hours, I was tired and.. happy. Happy because I saw that my work has the results, I was working with the people - friends. We had the same goal, same understanding, same values. It was a work with the children - I got a bunch of 8-14 years old (quite nasty age, taking into considerations that I was under 20).
It was then when I have made some crucial conclusions - that I just have to do things according my heart and conscience, to do my best to help people and try to make the world a little bit better without thinking if it is a profitable/ popular/ good paid and so on. and this makes me happy. I didn't even THINK about trying drugs or getting drunk, because I can live and ENJOY life without it. Some very wise man said that: "the best things in the world are free of charge" - the sunset at the sea, the look of a friend who understands you and supports; the beauty of our world. All these things are always there you just need to learn to see them. It is very hard and very easy at the same time.
One more wise writer of 18th century wrote that: "we ALL are responsible for our world" and I comletely agree with it, at least I feel that way.
to Another American: I agree that you have nothing to learn from God.
to God: I do not envy the poor kids you are going to teach.

Ali,

Still looking up some of the words you used in your rather verbose reiteration that "a vast majority among you, in the community" spout time and time again.

But, I will get back to you.

God


PS It was a simple question, you didn't have to make it an exam.

To

Imaloner,

You are a woman aren't you, that would explain the just do what feels good philosophy you live by.

Ingrate.

God

ps

If you are a woman, got any nude pics of yourself?
Hey live free, show your body!

Ali,

I thought about it. Not very much though. I think what "the community" should focus on is why do white cops react to black males that are breaking the laws, (Rodney on pcp, drunk driving, reckless driving King) & (Mr. Diallo black male in high crime are late at night) the way they do?

Aren't honest black men with good reputations up in arms about all the black thugs that have ruined their reputations? Why do you posture for murdering felons, only because they are black???

Ali, you know there is a problem in "the community" many black men are finding themselves in the system?? Hmmm...maybe that's why white people have certain percetions of black males?

When you are a police officer in N.Y, black or white and 3 out of 4 perps are black, wellll whattaya think??? Normal reaction to obvious situation.

Now let's talk about the evil white man and his corrupt government, that facilitates the helpless by product. (those troubled ones in "the community")

I say poppy cock!!

I use you as an example. I know nothing of your background but I'm sure you are in agreement that certainly a sound familial structure helps our youngsters become productive balanced adults. You are an example of an African American male who is educated, holds down a job, has a family and presumably has no felonies.

At a certain point in your life you took accountability for your own actions and thoughts(???) and stopped doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, EHH, yes/no?

Now if a child is from a broken home, or phrased more appropriately, a home without both parents presenting responsible lifestyles and acting as moral role models, there certainly are many examples of such the child could pursue in society.

Libraries have many pages of many books about wonderfully successful people, the Internet presents references to individual achievement we should all strive for, and last but not least, our community almost always has one or two individuals who "got out" and made something of themselves.

There are many opportunities for our youth today, and no excuses for underachievement. I agree that not all white people are good, and not all black people are bad.

We have fundamental differences about how we live, what we eat, the music we listen too...so forth and so on. Humans gravitate to what is familiar, within a comfort zone. I'm not sure we will ever be as comfortable with other races, nationalities or even genders as we are with those we have most in common with.

Some things my wife finds interesting and important I couldn't give two &hits about, & vice versa.

I think most whites feel that they shouldn't have to hold the hands of those that should have been running with the ball along time ago. I did not come from a family of privilige, and my father was an abusive mean man. (I forgive him and love him today.)

Anything I have I had to exchange long blocks of my life for against odds stacked against me. At times it was very, very difficult and lonely.

Sorry, you are rubbing off on me, I'll try to tighten this up now.

I am not qualified to debate at length the many challenges the races in America have, or the philosophies by which I try to live my life. I am barely living effectively by them, and try every day to make the right decisions.

I know I am sometimes a rude unrefined standoffish ass, but that is just one side of my identity that at certain times I choose to reveal.

After you have had the chance to peruse through this, feel free to blow holes through it at will, I would expect nothing less.

DOG

Dear John,

I have no idea what you are talking about. Drive on cosmic pilot.

God

Ali,

Do you love Sam Cooke's music?

God


Just listening to his greatest hits. what a shame, huh?

"Evil hippies"? Say WHAT?

What a stupid post.

L'Menexe
====
...Have a nice vacation, mum.

Hey Dog,
Sorry about being late with responses but the whole world seems to go haywire around the solstices. Every time it nears Christmas or summer vacation stuff just starts to happen and I'm caught in a struggle to swim upstream(yeah, I know, you guys are way tired of the excuses).

Anyway since you've sent your last post I tried twice to respond but I couldn't find the words and time ran out on me. Since then I've come to the conclusion that your problem is a strong case of myopia and I will do my best to rectify it even though it seems self inflicted.

The reason I asked you about the Diallo issue is that it represents almost everything that is wrong with America when it comes to justice and equity. The kid was a model citizen who was of the classic mold of immigrants that make the US a great nation. 12-14 hr days of work to support mom and siblings as well as schooling himself. His biggest crimes seem to have been being poor and black in a poor and colored neighborhood. It was 7 pm when he was accosted by a group ununiformed men who weren't so quick to identify a real danger as they were to exterminate a "possible" one. Some of them emptied the clips on their 9mm pistols(your our small arms expert, so you know how unreasonable that is). Some kept shooting well after he stopped moving and the flood of crimson changed the color of the stoop. 27, that was the total hits on a falling target on brick or cement block railed stoop. Those were semi-auto pistols. For the others, this means you gotta pull the trigger every time a shot is fired. This says that for a man to shoot 11 times he had to want to. As to your ascertion that it was a crime ridden neighborhood, all I can say is that it wasn't Kandahar and he wasn't Taliban. Yet a jury found nothing at all wrong with what happenned. No one lost a job and I'm not so certain anyone really got shuffled.

Why's this injustice and inequity. I've got two things to say - Randy Weaver. An armed and extremely dangerous white supremacist, seperatist, non-taxpaying, armed robber and illegal arms dealer who said all the time he would kill any fed agents who tried to capture him. When it all went down, the feds screwed it up pretty bad and I agree, but how can someone with his background win a case of unnecessary force and become enriched when a poor, black, unarmed and never known to be armed, model citizen can be slaughtered with impunity. They rewrote laws and reorganized the FBI because of the weaver case. Could you imagine if Mr. Weaver were a man of the the lawful community or even David Koresh. Oh yeah Koresh and his movement found some justice too.

Damn right, Honest hard working and family oriented black people are upset by by black thuggery and are doing all we can to alleviate it but some of also know that these things are very complex and have root causes that also have to be addressed. Sociological causes like racial injustice. How are young black males supposed to feel when the see what happened to Amadou Diallo. In a word disheartened. He did everything right and the system completely failed him. He couldn't even get justice after the fact. But it doesn't have to be that severe a punishment there's plenty of other stuff to go around.

My college experience was another of those humbling and subtly punishing times that most black people go through. Like the projects I worked on with my white classmate where I, supplied all the ideas, unbeknown to the professor, we shared projects and he always got the A and me the B, no matter what I did. It was odd because I always got the A on the test and he got C's. Or the way the white kids were always getting the exams or the questions because of the connections to the professors' RA's(research assistant).

If we look in the professional ranks we'll see that there's problems here as well. Most of the black people I know have many, many friends who having got degrees from top colleges are mollified and deeply hurt to see a younger person just out of a lesser college and who does nothing superior(and sometimes less), other than hang out with the bosses after work, when invited, go flying past them. Becoming their bosses while knowing so much less that you do all the work.

Or the time in the early nineties, I think it is, when it was found out that the personnel agencies were steering people to positions according to color. This, it seems, is happening less today but I'm certain it hasn't gone away completely or we'd probably be seeing mostly asian immigrants getting the good jobs. These are just a mere handful of the myriad experiences that we, people of color face, everyday and the vast majority still persevere. In fact it usually makes us try harder.

But some are deterred. Allowing these things to turn them negative and antisocial. I'm sure this happens in all communities maybe not to the same degree but, I'm sure, the phenomenon closely approximates this. Where I live, the trailer parks and low income "white" districts are always on TV. Some neighbors of my Father and Mom-inlaw(who live on the other side of county(guess why I'm living near them)), have the biggest rebel flag I've seen on their garage door, some really trashed lawn furniture(with milk crates making tables) in their driveway, their lawn is never cut and full of beer cans and bottles, and they park their monster trucks on the lawn. My inlaws say it sounds like a tractor pull is going on every night over there. They're the worst case, by far, in that neighborhood but there are many who seem to be going in that direction and they're all white. The people of color in the area are far from the bottom and strive for improvement to their properties.

If I always lived there and never went anywhere or never read or didn't understand sociology, my impression of white people would be decidedly more negative. I'd probably spit at every one of them as I saw em. Wouldn't that be a "normal reaction to an obvious situation".

Why are they like this? Because their ancestors were poor and didn't impart any need for them to do better or they didn't do a good enough job or the environment overwhelmed them(terrible schools, everyone around is poor, and in most instances one harworking hard drinking parent). Take your pick. It's pretty common around the world. How many of your homies from your past are at the top of the food chain now? I'll bet it's not all or most. The poor tend to stay poor and the rich tend to get richer or stay rich. I guess because it's usually hard to get poorer.

The question really shouldn't be why black people are not up in arms it should be why aren't Americans up in arms over Americans being in trouble shouldn't it? Why isn't all of the USA concerned over their entire family? Why aren't Americans upset about the school systems in the inner cities and the trailer park districts? Shouldn't all Americans want better for their own. Why is it that we don't strive for parity in funding and tackling the corruption that exist in these systems(I can give you plenty of anecdotes about this)? How come we can spend any amount on prisons and policing but so grudgingly give extra on schools for all of our children even while the country, as a whole, slips into an academic abyss.

I know I feel just as much pain about the white 50 yr old homeless Vietnam vet that I see picking up cans and bottles for a living as I feel about the poor old black man who was a cane farm worker his whole life but is almost crippled by arthritis. I give to both. I feel it when I see the little kids at my inlaws neighbors house, with their Salvation Army clothes and those awful homemade mullets as I feel when I see the grandkids of that cane worker pushing him in his wheelchair to the supermarket to buy one bag of food(maybe dogfood). I might be mistaken but isn't that what America is supposed to be about? W

I can only tell you that as we have done a better job of being fair and just, we have been getting better results as a society, but as our compadre and local sage, JUSTTHeFACTS(I didn't forget you buddy) has said we have long way to go. But I will agree with you big DOG, that there has been some improvement but don't forget that the real empowerment for some came in the sixties. That's what we used to call in track and field(440 yds) a staggered start.

If we can start applying the same principles that seem to be starting to work in our country, the USA, to the world as a whole I feel we will start to get the same results. But it takes time and consistency, like raising kids or coaching(even the science of groping). Look at what is happenning in Ireland for instance.


Whew! Sorry to go on and on but you know it's important so don't bitch about wordiness.

one love,

AA aka ALI

PS How about showing Ilona some of that good side buddy. She's from Europe. She's used to a bit more civility.

PPS This is too strange dude. Sam Cooke's greatist hits CD is wearing out my player. My wife says the only problem is that I, too often, try to sing along. Boy oh boy is it a shame. Once on a SL Luther sang an acapella masterpiece of his "a house is not a home" and you could feel the whole viewing public hugging and holding hands. I was imagining how Sam would have done.

Hey Dog,
This is an addendum to my previous post because I've just remembered some issues to add and I'm having one of my sleepless nights again.

I just happened to be up with the wife and as she was scanning the channels(she captured the remote again) she stopped at her favorite, the Wisdom channel.

They were showing a documentary on the life of a fine old southern gentleman from Texas named Richard Dawson(The book is titled "Life Is So Good" by Roger Glaubman). A survivor of the Jim Crow and Legal lynching era who kept his dignity while keeping his mouth shut. Which is why he survived.

Because of this Docu I remembered that all the judgements, sufferings and harsh penalties for being black in America predate blacks being a major part of the crime statistics. This was going on from the start, so to use black peoples present day situation, as it relates to crime, as a reason for the things that are now happenning to them seems like a very incomplete, if not fallacious, argument.

There's so much more to say but let's space it out or we'll drown out the other voices.

ALI aka AA

ALI,

What the hey! Sam had my number the first time I heard "Darling You Send Me" in my mothers 1969 Rambler station wagon.

Just bought his greatest hits CD, for the fifth time and have been playing it over and over like a mental patient.

In 1996 I went through a divorce and sold my business in New York. I decided to go to California.

I liquidated all of my belongings and got into my XJ6, drove over the GW Bridge and did not look back.

I lived off my money from the sale in Southern California for awhile, but wound up penniless.
I sold my car, did not have a wallet, or ID. I used a bicycle to get around for a time.

I lived in the mountains of Jamul, surrounded by Avocado groves. I was living in a garage sleeping on a couch with Chico, a brindle pit bull owned by Steve, one of the Mexican students that lived in the house.

There were 4 guys that went to San Diego State University in the house. Remus was from Romania, and the owner, the rest were all Mexican Americans.

My father is from Italy and my mother from Ireland. I am fair skinned with black hair and green eyes. I tell you not to impress you, but to impress upon you the difference in my physical appearance from that of my "housemates."

We would go out for a beer from time to time and I noticed that these young men would only go to clubs that catered to Hispanics. I stood out a bit, but I didn't really care.

Eventually I became aware of their perceptions, I was definitely white and they were not. There was some tension, and I did everything I could to
avoid any difficult situations. They seemed to belive that all of thier problems were some how related to thier color.

One time I convinced them to go to a "White Club."
After a short time the remarks were plentiful, "O.K. it's time to blow this Klan meeting!" Yada yada yada, you can imagine the rest. They simply did not enjoy being around white people. Hmmm...

Anyway, Steve wrote an essay for his college English class and told me I would be surprised when I read it. Well he got an "A", and I was surprised, not about the "A", but that the essay was about me.

He wrote how he hated me when he first saw my white skin and green eyes. He thought about every Irish slur and insult, about the drunken Irish, the murdering N.Y. Italians and so on. He thought it was fitting that I slept with his dog.

His essay actually ended quite nicely, he explained how he began to like me, and eventually considered me his friend.

I know what it is like to be hated for having a certain physical appearance. You do not have exclusivity on the experience.

When my ancestors came over from Europe to New York, signs in storefronts advertised for jobs, often included the words; "Irish and Italian need not apply."

Some people spend a lifetime looking for ways to be offended. I certainly could find 20 or 30 ways a day if I looked for the dirt, I simply filter it out and focus on what I can control.

I do not pretend to have walked in your shoes. I am sorry for your bad experinces, but pal, I didn't facilitate them nor was I involved in any of them. I would have sided with you if I ever saw a hate remark, or crime against you. We probably would have been friend's if I knew you.

Just as a wake does not control the route of the ship, neither does our past control our futures. If I may, I suggest you give up your personal history and bury that dirty little bag of bad experiences in the back yard. It will always be there if you need it.

You and I will never change the ignorant people that cannot see past the color of thier own skin.

I'm sure there are perversity's of justice against white's that are equally horrendous as that as was perpetrated against Mr. Diallo.

How will it serve finding the solution, or healing the pain, if I spend all my time and focus on all the wrongs that have been done to me, and whites?

After the Army at least 3 of my buddies participated in the entrance tests for the FBI, and posted excellent scores.

On the follow up interview, which each took separately, they all received almost the same message by the FBI, you are the wrong color (white) at the wrong time.

People must release all blame for thier current conditions and realize theyou have always had many choices. There are no justified resentments.

All 3 buddies are now doing great and realize that in some way it all worked out for the best.

You my friend do not have to look far to find what you hate in others.

I think at least one of has a strong case of myopia; I'm just not sure whom.

Ali, I got to hit it, it is getting late and my Rotty is hungry.

What ever you do, don't die with the music still in you.

Be the man,

Dog