I'm so glad I'm off work tonight (space to absorb the impact of the tragedy in S.C.)

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26. In your second paragraph - a most interesting note.

I wouldn't doubt that a lot of THAT - pathology, if you will, is indeed at work here. What will happen to us if THEY gain power and then give us a taste of our own medicine! Be afraid! Be afraid!

Well, frankly, I'd say we'd deserve it. And it's just testimony of the elegance and nobility of the black community. I see it in our President EVERY DAY. Not ONCE has he behaved in any sort of revenge-justice mode. NOT ONCE. He has tried to rise above it in every instance, after EVERY bit of disrespect and insult and absolute reprehensible disgraceful shameful shit thrown at him. He still stands tall and just brushes that off and tries to do his job with no malice or resentment. HOW THE HELL he manages that is beyond me. Reminds me of something Dr. King once said - about "the content of their character."

Michael Steele is on MSNBC (at this writing anyway), talking about that shit that feeds some communities. And he's SO spot-on here, quoting from the oft-spoken mentality behind it:

"We solved the problem. Oh, we have a black President. So we're done." (And we sure saw the ultimate manifestation of that in the recent Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Civil Rights Act, too, didn't we! What race problem? Hey everybody, let's all congratulate ourselves! We're "post-racial"!)

Then the anchor, Craig Melvin, comes back after that and points out, rather succinctly, that "we have NOT overcome."

MAN, does THAT ever nail it.