DU, I'm asking for help.

[Keystone Writer]

12. We're on a fault line.

Imagine having community leaders who are egged on by loose legal interpretations. If they didn't fear legal ramifications, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they pushed things over the edge.

There was also a law on the books that said that if you were going to sue a municipality, you had to sue in the county courts where that municipality exists. And guess who presides as judge? One of the good ole boys.

Finally, in 1998 someone beat them at their own game, and managed to get them into the federal courts. But it required an enema of public record requests, and it was resolved with a settlement agreement that included a confidentiality clause. That means that it may have slowed them down, but it isn't going to stop them. Not with the current trends being what they are in Florida. Meanwhile, their side has learned from their mistakes, and our side doesn't have a clue what it was all about because the papers kept is tamped down.

It definitely needs an airing because it looks like it was all about loosening regulations to allow a selected group to enjoy an economic boon at everybody else's expense. If there was a case which the NAACP should take a closer look to find evidence to support Affirmative Action, it's this one.