OK, I think I will.  Here is some of what I think:

1.  The monkey cartoon was tasteless and it caused me to wince.  I don’t think I fully understand the sensitivity of the “monkey” thing.  Could someone explain it to me?   If the joke was funny, and it wasn’t, it was calling Reid, Pelosi, Obey, etc. chimps/monkeys.  Everyone knows they wrote the stimulus bill.  I think it might have been better if Pres. Obama wrote it. 

2.  In my early life,  the monster was the bigoted Southern white male beating/killing  young black men and those who helped the cause of civil rights.  Today the monster is the young black male, a dropout who listens to gangsta wrap and treats the women around him like trash.  The monster of my youth was a threat to the black community and their ability to move forward.  Today’s monster is a threat to all of us.  But once again, he prays mostly on the black community and their ability to move forward. 

3.  I saw today that young black men are now using the word “president” in place of the “n-word”  to refer to each other.  This seems utterly ridiculous but strangely better.

4.  Eric Holder says we have a integrated workplace, but we still self segregate. Each generations goes further down the the road, is more comfortable with people different from themselves.  We do all mostly self segregate, all races.  It gets better, I think.  My grandparents used the word “niggra” as a matter of fact, and my children hear the word “nigger” all the time in the music they listen to.  Can we get any credit for the progress we make or do we need Eric Holder to lecture us?

OK, I have crawled out on the limb.  Join in this conversation.  Don’t saw the limb off.