tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8010473.post-28893516620888115112008-03-07T22:33:00.000-08:002008-03-07T22:33:00.000-08:002008-03-07T22:33:00.000-08:00<B>Mango Mama,</B><BR/>Folks think institutional racism disappeared with bus boycotts and lunch counter sit ins. And beyond the institutional aspects is the effect of our individual minds and hearts. But denial is the name of the game, we are encouraged to blithely accept that folks factor rce into how they decide to vote. Ugh.<BR/><BR/><B>DJBA,</B><BR/>Exactly. That was what upset me in the post I wrote on Wednesday. It's okay for 18% of people to basically tell an exit poller they wouldn't vote for a black person. Our entire nation should be in an uproar over such a thing, but the masses are not and indeed some would see that as just being the status quo.<BR/><BR/><B>Heart,</B><BR/>There is such glamour to gang membership. I found myself watching a bit of one of those awful lockup programs on MSNBC and it featured a guy who got into a gang because all the girls liked gangbangers because they found bad boys attractive. He wanted a girlfriend and he wanted to be cool so he joined. But now that he's defected from the gang, the gang members want to kill him. Sick.Los Angelistahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17794296990587989214noreply@blogger.com