the little boy is at his grandmother's tonight. she is taking him to the butterfly sanctuary in NH tomorrow made more sense for him to stay there. i miss him. i love the sound of his voice - except of course when i wish he would just e quiet for a minute. but he has the cutest voice and the way he says things. So the other day I'm showing him this book that my insurance company mailed out to me about being pregnant and havign a baby. there is a naked pregnant woman and he points and says "look that momma took the ring off her belly" He also keeps asking me if the baby has come out of my belly yet. i'll tell ya this - it ain't cuz this kid is lazy - s/he seems to be in constant motion.
i think what professor gates has done in this situation to the black and latino community is very nearly equivalent to a woman who falsely files a rape charge
and that's all i will say about that because there are a couple of politic issue just aggravating the crap out of me at the moment but i'm too tired to go down that road. so let's just leave tonight with the idea that my kid is damned cute. how's that?
oh - and the difference between racism and prejudice. racism is about power - domination. the only way that a minority can dominate over a majority is to have a resource that that majority needs or by mutual consent. that is why there is no such thing as reverse racism. black people in this country have neither the numbers nor the power over the majority. someday soon latinos might but we aren't there either.
okay that's all then
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