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This one's a strange tale. A family from Britain, on holiday here in the US and all they ask is that they not be interfered with by the negros who ordinarily are paid to serve and assist them in the hotel they stayed. They're enough serious issues affronting us to ignore this.

Of note however is this family apparently was rich enough to get the hotel management to go along with them. Times are hard and revenues are down, maybe a little extra cash from xenophobes, not in their own country to keep negros out the way though still on the clock, makes sense. I'm mean only real racist would ask for them to be fired for a week right. Actually I thought real racist like being served or rather prefer to be served by us. That's what I get for stereotyping. The dad should have been President of the US long before Lincoln. The result: an end to slavery. If anyone is committed to a cause, its got to be this guy.

With all the complaints the Brits have about foreigners in their own country, how does this little family expect such treatment. I would bet they called ahead. They got their request too, but what made the hotel receptive to such and think they could pull if off. Perhaps this is a new form of tourism. It certainly gives the words "vacation" and of course "holiday", its sibling from Europe new meaning. I guess the the next time I'm sitting in choir rehearsal especially, church occasionally or even the bus or train and I feel a certain desire or a serious yearning for something other, I now know that its a "Holiday" I long for, and apparently one I can get at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida. The fee priceless.

This continues to be a pretty big issue for us. Honestly, I don't know what the solution is. In the end we have to be responsible for ourselves. That's all I'll say on that.

What caught my eye was this. Okay this paragraph is the very last one in the post so I guess "caught my eye" isn't accurate but its a gem. Anyway, the quote:

And, according to CDC experts, while African-American women and men are often unwilling to get tested, doctors are often reluctant to discuss sexual health with their patients -- particularly with black male patients.

Okay family, that's us negros, let's talk. The rest of you have to sit this one out. I love all my people. Some of you are concerning even to me, so I know you scare other people. Yet, never in all my life would I have thought that I'd read anything such as this. Brothers, my brothers we can't be scaring the doctors so much that they're afraid to tell us something's wrong with our equipment.

This is serious business I know, but that is funny as hell. There is a doctor somewhere in America tonight, who's afraid that if he has the audacity to tell a brother there's something wrong with his package, the brothers going to what? Pistol whip him some. I need Dave Chappelle to write the skit and act in it of course. Dave Chappelle would play this white doctor and it would be some "Big Thugdom" type cat playing a patient who's got some parasites living in his pipes. The first time the Dr. meets the patient he's jumpy and scared. Then later that week when the Dr. gets the results he's like, "I'll just mail them. He probably can't read anyway." Then trying to be the doctor he singed on to be, he contacts "Big Thugdom" for a followup and ask him to come in. He becomes obsessed with the idea that telling BT he's got the drips is going to result in gun play. That's the way I see it in my mind's eye though. It's hilarious and sad.

On some level it hurts me that some of us are just negative caricatures one way or another to other races and they don't see us as people or human or nice. Yeah I laugh at that because the idea of supposed professionally educated people who have earned (some of them) their craft at great expense can ascribe to such foolery as this. In the same beat of the heart, I do know that some of us while not literally this bad off (hopefully) do to their own detriment inspire such fear and second guessing.

It leaves me very conflicted. I know us. Hell I am us and I know that we're not all the same but at the same time the inclination is there to say how dare they... Whatever.

This interview is a bit hard to watch if not comical. Catherine Davis and Artis Cash both participate in this discussion and I think are working at cross purposes. Conservatives love to focus on abortion but refuse to acknowledge the living conditions many of today's children are born into. Pro-Lifers' concern shouldn't stop the moment the baby leaves the hospital for the first time. It has to be about the things that bring quality to life and these are the issues that conservatives routinely ignore. Her statistics are compelling but I'd like to see how many of these are abortions involve women in poverty because she might well find that poverty more than anything else is a prevailing factor if not causal.

Blacks may in fact be targeted by Abortion clinics. I have no way of knowing one way or the other. What I do know is that targeted or not, poverty, poor outcomes and bleak outlooks render families and young women of any color that are struggling, vulnerable and susceptible to the message and who knows maybe more likely to engage the process.

Mr. Cash seemed a bit out matched by his argument. On the face of it he seems to be a defender of the poor and maltreated. Yet, he mentions character as the issue though there are those who get abortions because of an unwillingness to jeopardize or compromise on educational and career goals and clearly outside the scope of his argument. While I agree that it is a character issue, contextually Character is off base and has negative connotations that apply to anyone getting an abortion of every social status. Mr. Cash would be better served specifically mentioning education and poverty; stop mentioning Al Sharpton every 2 seconds leave the attacking pundit thing to someone else. He had a great point to make, but he spent time trying to spin this and attack her and unfortunately his articulation isn't going to get him there.

Ms. Davis' reduction of the issues down to "Social Justice" was troubling to say the least as its a clinical operand used to gloss over the dynamic and unrelenting peril we face daily. Given her chosen political bent this sort of construct is unsurprising. I just hope that her heart is truly in the right place. The both are in agreement as to the targeting and to be clear, I am glad she's spotlighting this. I'd just rather she took her stance to its full conclusion because that's where the real work really begins and its also why conservatives don't go there.