Donald Trump's presence on the international stage isn't comic relief. It is, amongst other things, a revival of Jim Crow's spirit. My caution is felt in the air. White broadcasters and the news media most Americans listen to are distant from the pulse of non-whites. We, of the darker hue, have long memories, and own no reason to be confident in the intent of good white people. Our old people, our parents always whispered in our young ears: "It is never a question of if, but when will whites betray you!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/02/18
Beautiful and compelling white women, like Mona Wales, have tempted and taken many sons from Black mothers. The white led to red blood on green grass growing from brown earth. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/02/18
"For the far right, women are vital propagandists and figureheads. White supremacy needs women, too. It always has. In her new book The Second Coming of the KKK, historian Linda Gordon writes about the vital role of white women in the 20th-century rise of the Klu Klux Klan. This wasn’t the KKK of the 1880s, riding at night to break strikes and reimposing slavery through labor discipline and lynchings. The KKK of the 1920s was a corporate behemoth, part social club, part political movement...
You called your chapter on women “KKK Feminism,” which made me think of today’s white nationalist movement and its own version of feminism — returning to traditional gender roles.
Linda Gordon: I think I named it that almost deliberately, to be provocative, because I want people to understand that feminism comes in all versions. You can have not only racist feminism, you can have feminism that speaks only to corporate leaders...
There is a tendency for people to think of feminism as one coherent whole, which it has never been." - Michael Scipio
"Flag stance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all..."
Klan's contradiction in innocence.
German soldiers captured by Americans during second world war. 5,000 Germans settled in the U.S. after their release.
Ku Klux Klansmen flee from angry counter-protesters after they tried to start a White Lives Matter rally in Anaheim on Feb. 27. 2016 photo by Luis Sinco for the Los Angeles Times.
I am looking for the right word or phrase. It would be for the better way to express an absurdity, a trifleness centered around President Trump and his inability to care or to have acquired integrity. It was apparent to all, but the millions of white folks who need to believe in the supremacy of their lowest common denominator: poor white trash. In this equation is the assumption among those opposed to him feeling the need to dispute everything Trump does with over emphasis on how much better their view is to his. I share this belief because it is clear where the spirit of said Trump is too painfully a part of American history; thus predictable.
But, in respect to this controversy about the man not calling dead soldier's families, there is no respect in the man for others. Trump, let's say, understands one thing about the military Americans like to not believe: soldiers are cannon fodder. Not having an internal structure of character, of a man in the deep sense of the word; it is inconceivable to expect the man to demonstrate care. It is not part of his make up. Anything gained by someone making his behavior better is inconclusive evidence that the integrity and manners we teach our children was not part of his mentality.
Wishful thinking is not policy. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Oct. 22, 2017]
TWO
On this day October 22, 1906, 'Three thousand African Americans demonstrate and nearly riot in front of the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to protest a theatrical presentation of Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel that glorified the Ku Klux Klan.
While attending a performance of the play earlier that day, African Americans seated in the segregated balcony had hurled eggs at the actors on the stage. By nighttime, protesters were out shouting against the play. Local clergy members took the lead in the protest, claiming that The Clansman depicted people of African descent as "beast[s] of the jungle" and the play encouraged whites to lynch African Americans.
After the clergy demanded a meeting with Mayor John Weaver, they were able to have the remaining scheduled performances of the play cancelled -at least until the following year.
The Clansman book later became the basis for D. W. Griffith's racist film, Birth of a Nation.'
- Karen Juanita Carrillo / pp 306-307 African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events
Michael Scipio is a very thoughtful man I respect for his short introspective pieces spanning the great contradictions of American life. He is skilled at asking the right questions. This day, as a challenge to thought he asked questions against a photograph of white women and their men, who were Klansmen at a rally. He wrote:
"Exhibit umpteen hundred: We all experience social learning, but questions remain. Are these women being oppressed? Are they being unduly coerced against their will to participate, essentially rendering them victims of white patriarchy? Or do they have adequate agency, the ability to make good rational choices? Are they willing participants in advancing white supremacy? Who are the 53% of white women that voted for Trump? Will you please stand up and tell me how you really feel..."
Those are good questions, I answer, but they give these white women a way out of the equation. They don't get an out because in the 21st century apologizing has become the extend of 'understanding' or 'addressing' complex racial beliefs and the violence, which is the language of white supremacy. You can't remove these white women from either side because the benefits of the military branch of white conquest and domination is the Klan and other similar groups. They protect all white Americans. The new nuances of color politics are of no consideration.
Now the last question: "Who are the 53% of white women that voted for Trump?" That is the only question to weigh. We know the answers to the other ones. Our ancestors and parents taught us of the darker hue everything about white Americans, their practices and beliefs and how to have a chance to excel. If we wanted to simply exist there were always methods. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/16/17
Klan members at the height of their violence.
What they are crying about? Don't give a damn!
"Love is an action word; a key to unlock all possibilities."
The Hill is a legitimate newspaper easily found here in Washington DC. It comes off the press out of the Capital daily and is one of the news sources we trust here in the District named after Christopher Columbus. On Monday, the 27th of February a photo of senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office while President Trump met with leaders of historically black universities and colleges was published. She was wearing a short skirt, heels, her slim legs tugged under her with just enough gap between her legs to leave open speculation as she took a photo of the group of distinguished Black men. At the center of this is the president, the sole white man. If ever there was a picture of our country's recent past under Jim Crow this is it!
There was not a single Black man in that room that didn't tense. I did not need to be in that room. Wouldn't have been good for Kellyanne Conway. My wife and most Black wives would have in the name of protecting their men kicked her hind parts into the next week! Black women to this day know how white women can and have deceptively set Black men up for falls that lead to their deaths, the loss of jobs, prestige, position and good standing with the white community. All it would have took was for her to say someone looked up my dress! It is an insider knowledge white people historically pretend to be unaware of and remain silent if they suspect foul play at work.
Playing with sexual energies putting on a front of playfulness, and playing at the game of
"Glad you're here! Let's get along! Come on, guys lets' get round up and take a photo with the president!" she made a show of sitting down backwards to tuck her legs and feet under her body as her dress rose just a bit, just enough for the spread of the legs to insinuate, and release the faint smell of her womanhood into the room to tempt and tease. It was a bitter reaction one can easily assume those men held within as the White House photographer was taking pictures, and the Secret Service near by were feeling the pulse of the room. Now, these were dignified, seasoned, educated Black men with far more depth and integrity than she gave respect for and these men were all old enough to have lived through Jim Crow and those from the South will never discuss this the way I am after enduring what their wives will say in judgment and in some cases rage!
The finger of accusation points to the white Americans in this national game playing around with the facts of how the assumptions of white supremacy, of race politics, of how the collective reaction to bite and sabotage their own democracy are not being honest and that the failure to call the texture of President Affront's presidency what it really is: the rise of the Old South; is the bane of our existence! Blame also goes to Black people in general, and in particular our used to be leaders, and our so-called leaders from church to government, who are afraid in their silence to do what they are capable of, and equipped to do: tell the truth and do something about it!
As this Redneck president solidifies the positioning of Klansmen, a Leninist, hardcore self-serving business men to undo what protects the country, our industries, the land and what integrity the country has built there is a disturbing declaration of people in the press and those interviewed by the press expressing fears as a reaction to the White House escapades. Teko Alejo points this out much better than I saying, “The mainstream media vs Trump is like the CIA against the KKK. My enemy’s enemy is not always my friend. The sad thing is many liberals are defending the mainstream press as if they were the guardians of freedom and information, when in reality it has been responsible for social engineering, the promotion of US imperialism, disinformation, and militarism around the world as a whole.”
Under this regime we are supposed to as a nation suspend ourselves in a state of fear as if 9/11 just happened, and involve ourselves in the white backlash against Muslims and Central Americans and First Nations people? Are we First Nations people and Black American citizens supposed to get lost in the deep fears white Americans have always held, and hold them unaccountable for the irreversible position this manifestation of cultural beliefs has bound the nation into a weak global position?
Since Khrushchev in the 1950's said the United States will be defeated without a fight but from within I have wondered how it could happen. Now, in the midst of it, I know.
Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Feb. 28, 2017
Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office while
President Trump meets with leaders of historically black universities and colleges.
Joan Crawford. The awkwardness of her beauty was her beauty.
If I was to say something about Joan Crawford I couldn't have said thirty or forty years ago I would say, "The awkwardness of her facial structure created an allure, a way of being in touch with something you could touch and not describe well at all, but it was a beautiful thing to look deep within and think about what dreams inside of her essence, her essential beauty of spirit!" ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories[Feb. 14, 2017]
James Dean.
Soon after World War II, James Dean, the image of; gave birth to a sense of isolation and alienation to a generation that eventually led to the creation of cult followings of grunge, hippies, white street gangs, violent motorcycle clubs, Gothic, and so on... It lead to a disengagement that quietly grew into terrifying acts of white on other people violence steering thousands of white boys and men in directions the government used in insidious ways. The KKK latched on to that spirit, the movement of white men darkened in blood. White men who otherwise were privileged because they were white found refuge in various groups singing Dixie wishing for the return of the old South. It hasn't abated either. It is stronger today as Klansmen, and Klan sympathizers take positions in the Trump administration this time without much concealing of intent or identity.
James Dean. That is what he feels like. His legacy was part of what many non-white fathers had to lay out and interpret for their sons to incorporate into their adult lives. It has always been the strategies created to deal with the multiple recreations of white power that kept Black and Red people alive. Whether white Americans want to believe it, or deny the necessity of intelligent strategies we need does not matter to us. Our lives don't depend on their beliefs, or do they? If the answer is yes we need to re-evaluate our thinking, our believing, our living and our dying.
Kim Novak, actress in 1958 with a Siamese cat from the film Bell, Book and Candle.
photograph by Eliot Elisofon for The LIFE Picture Collection Getty Images.
Steve McQueen and his wife, Neile, Palm Springs, 1963.
photo by John Dominis —The LIFE Picture Collection Getty Images
LIFE magazine's creator, Henry Luce's original 1936 mission statement
delineating his new venture's workmanlike method and its lofty aims.
LIFE magazine was a profound publication. It like other magazines of the eras it lived through took deep pride in its research, photographers, reporters and most important the written word's depth. One average person expressed their feelings about this type of reporting world events that touches me I'd like to share with younger people obsessed with lesser pursuits believing their depth matches what proceeded them.
Matteson Mae Emmaery Langan said, "this was my favorite magazine. period. end of story. far down the line was reader's digest before it was filled with more advertisements than writing. my grandmother, who knew I loved reading, would get me subscriptions for one for my birthday and one for xmas. I had a very happy and educated childhood. now that LIFE is owned by time.com, you get nothing but political jibbery, and quite honestly, between what is on the news, and what you hear anywhere you go in the public and what your friends are discussing, it's more than enough. bring back the magazine that spoke through images and small quotes of words that said it all. please. this world is getting dumber, and worse as it is. don't pander to its inequities."
"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted." ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Trump did not lie about two things: who he is, and what he wanted to do when in power! The deception was in those who believed he was better than Obama and believed the old adage, 'white is right!' The others fooled were the uninformed afraid of the dynamics of no longer being a majority in the country no more to feel better than the rest, and bewildered by the waning energetic powers of white domination! The remaining supporters have long believed their 'shit' don't stink and have nothing to apologize about!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
KKK police force: a national institution.
"In a heavily redacted version of an October 2006 FBI internal intelligence assessment, the agency raised the alarm over white supremacist groups’ “historical” interest in “infiltrating law enforcement communities or recruiting law enforcement personnel.”
... That report appeared after a series of scandals involving local police and sheriff’s departments. In Los Angeles, for example, a U.S. District Court judge found in 1991 that members of a local sheriff’s department had formed a neo-Nazi gang and habitually terrorized black and Latino residents. In Chicago, Jon Burge, a police detective and rumored KKK member, was fired, and eventually prosecuted in 2008, over charges relating to the torture of at least 120 black men during his decades long career. Burge notoriously referred to an electric shock device he used during interrogations as the “nigger box.” In Cleveland, officials found that a number of police officers had scrawled “racist or Nazi graffiti” throughout their department’s locker rooms. In Texas, two police officers were fired when it was discovered they were Klansmen. One of them said he had tried to boost the organization’s membership by giving an application to a fellow officer he thought shared his “white, Christian, heterosexual values.”
Dance of our Life !
... in a 2015 speech, FBI Director James Comey made an unprecedented acknowledgment of the role historically played by law enforcement in communities of color: “All of us in law enforcement must be honest enough to acknowledge that much of our history is not pretty.”
[[ Federal law enforcement agencies in general — the FBI, the Marshals, the ATF — are aware that extremists have infiltrated state and local law enforcement agencies and that there are people in law enforcement agencies that may be sympathetic to these groups,” said Daryl Johnson, who was the lead researcher on the DHS report. Johnson, who now runs DT Analytics, a consulting firm that analyzes domestic extremism, says the problem has since gotten “a lot more troublesome.” ]]
Coretta Scott King, author, activist and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Coretta Scott King, author, activist and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote a scathing testimony against Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions when he was being considered for a federal judgeship in 1986. In the letter, Mrs. King wrote that Sessions “lacks the temperament, fairness and judgement to be a federal judge” and said that his appointment “would irreparably damage the work of my husband.”
So thirty years later, why would Donald Trump make Sessions, who has reportedly made racial slurs, joked about supporting the Ku Klux Klan and had a long history of opposing voting rights, his U.S. Attorney General nominee?
In fact, it was the Republican senator’s record on voting rights that inspired Mrs. King to oppose him. She referenced his 1985 attempt to prosecute three civil rights activists for voter fraud – accusations that were later proven to be unfounded.
“I urge you to consider carefully Mr. Sessions’ conduct in these matters,” she wrote. “Such a review, I believe, raises serious questions about his commitment to the protections of the voting rights of all American citizens and consequently his fair and unbiased judgement regarding this fundamental right.”
Sessions, however, denies he is racist and in 2013 denied that minorities in the South were “being denied the vote because of the color of their skin.” ~ authored by Code Black Report.com
It’s a distinguishing fact of human psychology that people hate to be stereotyped, but love stereotyping others.
In today’s context, the issue of whether or not the Islamic State, a group of radical extremists terrorizing the Middle East, can be considered “Muslim” is at the forefront of a debate that’s taking place across the world. In the United States, the conversation became even more heated after President Obama remarked that “ISIL is not ‘Islamic'” but a “terrorist organization, pure and simple.”
If taken literally, Obama’s claim is dubious. The Atlantic ran a cover story by Graeme Wood that essentially debunked the idea. Like it or not, Wood argued, ISIS is Islamic, in that they derive their ideology – however warped – from Islamic teachings.
The most-articulate spokesmen for that position are the Islamic State’s officials and supporters themselves. They refer derisively to “moderns.” In conversation, they insist that they will not—cannot—waver from governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers. They often speak in codes and allusions that sound odd or old-fashioned to non-Muslims, but refer to specific traditions and texts of early Islam.
Members of ISIS certainly believe they are Muslim and acting in strict concordance with that ideology.
A more careful reading of Obama’s remarks, however, suggests that he wasn’t arguing that the members of ISIS aren’t Muslims (as conservative media attacked him for), but that when you think of Islam, you would be remiss to view it as symbolized in ISIS. They may be Muslims, but they are certainly no ambassadors for Islam – the faith that over 1 billion people on Earth worship.
Furthermore, ISIS has positioned itself as conquerors, targeting weak areas in wartorn countries and quickly seizing land. Their behavior is driven not just by Islam, but by the practical concerns of a nascent group trying to gain power. It’s no secret that much of what ISIS does is driven by monetary concerns. They seize oil refineries, poppy fields, banks vaults, and hostages in order to enrich themselves and increase their might. Ignoring that motivation means making a huge mistake.
Enter former basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, himself a Muslim, who made the point with a profound eloquence.
While speaking to MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Abdul-Jabbar said viewing ISIS as representing Islam would be like viewing the Ku Klux Klan as representing Christianity. Both groups derive their ideologies from religion, but neither can be said to make a claim for the vast majority of people within them.
“You can make parallels to things that have happened here in America. Like the Ku Klux Klan saying they are the Christian knights,” Abdul-Jabbar pointed out. “And they do not practice Christianity.”
In much the same way as ISIS, the KKK and other hate groups have always used religion as a way of justifying atrocities and hatred towards other groups.
“People use that as an excuse. It’s not an excuse, it’s no excuse and oppressing one group means that we have to look out, all groups have to get together to fight that type of oppression, because we all should be free.”
In this way, these hate groups have more in common than different. One need only to look at historical examples to find ample proof that Christian groups were capable of savagery that ISIS would recognize in their own. If people point to the fact that the KKK is (relatively) muted in recent decades, the thanks lies squarely with moderate people pushing society towards no longer tolerating the group’s terrorism. The KKK didn’t suddenly grow a sense of morality – they were aggressively suppressed by the people and the United States government until they were a non-factor.
Dismantling the KKK didn’t require the destruction of Christianity, but rather a shift from the virulently toxic form advocated by the hate group towards a more tolerant one. If ISIS is to be defeated, the goal has to be similar. Condemning all Muslims in an effort to cleanse the world of ISIS would be similarly unachievable, and ultimately foolish.
Did you know that as of today one of the most racist forums on the internet has now been in existence for 20 years?http://sp.lc/KQKVU
Will it be around for another 20 years? Yes. The U.S. government keeps these organizations around. They are apart of the theme of the country, like the pledge, the patriotic songs. They'll be around and treated with kid gloves serving their public, most of whom do not put their alliegence to the cause of white terror and supremacy on front street. Yeah, they will be around. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (1.29.16)
Colored children standing in the doorway of their house, March 1941, near Bonneau, South Carolina
by Jack Delano courtesy of The New Public Library.
I'm not conceited or arrogant, at all!! I'm just a very confident, breastless hefa, with no insecurities and so very thankful to GOD, for my amazing testimony!! Cancer had no idea who it was dealing with!!! I'm so glad that GOD is ALWAYS on my side!! -
KKK member pees his pants when confronted by a Black Man!
Ahmed Majeed said, 'The hate is willing but the bladder is weak.' (2015) This scene occurred after the church murders in Charleston, South Carolina.
Tactically, the white guy had the technical advantage. If he'd paid attention to details and managed his fears, which are understandable, he could have taken advantage of the Black man's lack of strengthens in the area of strategies. His pants hang. He would be an easy kill in any confrontation with just a little thought given to the art of war.
This Black man gives rise to assumptions many Black man think they have by mere outbursts alone. The thinking of the warrior is far beyond posturing. The same holds true for the white man. Both of them made assumptions as am I thinking I know the story of this scene. But, the emblems of the Klan are there. What we enjoy about this moment is the inner power of the Black man. When Black men face their inner man's demons in like fashion better men will come out of the introspection manhood requires.
This was a complex moment, one we should be pleased with and take notes about. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (11.21.15)
Though my girlfriend & I riding the Greyhound bus into Atlanta from Smyrna one day to shop in town (we were about 14-15 yrs. old.) and as walking down Marietta Street downtown and who turns the corner but a hoard of Ku Klux Klan white sheets and all - enveloping us on the sidewalk! We jumped backward into a doorway until they passed us by. Then we continued on. I was so niave back then.
And I remember seeing a cross being burned at Campbell High School (Smyrna) "hill" back about that time. I had no idea what was going on.
Also remember riding the Greyhound one time and I was so tired (going from Atlanta at work back to Smyrna - when I was about 17 yrs. old) and there were a lot of people standing in the asile. bus crowded. I spied an empty seat toward the back of the bus and sat myself down next to a black person - hey, empty seat!) whites all standing. Everyone on the bus gave me the evil eye. Blacks AND White. lol. what did I care? not in the least - I was comfortable all the way home.
(Note: when my mom and dad worked 5 days a week Charmie a black woman took care of me and my brother so thus my naivety about the conflicts) Oh, and went to all white school but never knew it was "different". (50's - 60's Cobb Co., GA) - (feb. 9, 2011)
When I look at this staged photography of someone (a parent I assume) holding a mask of President Obama in front of a toddlers face it pains me what it suggests. It gives a reasonable explanation why the child is crying. If the child is crying for another reason and the parent stuck the President's mask in the child's face to increase his anxiety that is cruel and abusive. The parent is deteriorating the magic the child is born with replacing it with fears without comfort, good reason, love, or explanation. Compact this one incident with other and similar incidents the child could be, or is exposed to you can only conclude the parent is creating fear within the boy.
On second thought this parent might be raising his/her child in a lily white town that believes its own myths about white supremacy and the degradation of the value of life within people of color. This very well be an indoctrination method commonly used since President Obama took office. Perhaps this is how the KKK keep their fires stoked and broiling within their offspring!
The third point of view may simply be the parent was taking the picture and making terrifying sounds and creating terror with the mask of the President as a prop. But, the very first thing that rose up within me was all of these thoughts in an instance, a flash and heard myself in the street vernacular say, "That's some bullshit!!!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories10.8.13
"They serve as a shield in dark difficult times. When face to face with a seemingly insurmountable foe the recollection of your powers, what you have done, who you are conjures up enormous powers that counter, or lessen the weight of fear. In battle this tool can give you an edge. This is a warrior teaching." - Gregory E. Woods 9.24.13
Silence is a sacred space... I am learning this. When in Silence all things can be heard. When in Silence all things are given respect. We listen in our spiritual Walk, and we learn to listen in our physical Walk. As we Journey into Earth and Sky we hear through the quietness of our minds and mouths, we listen to all things that surround us. When we walk into our daily lives we hear more by listening first to the hearts of others before we speak. We understand more and assume less. There is a great clarity of Spirit and a great Peace that comes with silence. It is hard at times, but remembering this Sacred Space inside of us carries many blessings. Walking in respect and gratitude for all ~RedskyHawk
".... I've shared meals and conversation with those people in my short life. Hate has a way of eating its host. Deprived of higher access to their humanity they are like ghosts. It is strange how what they don't know affects their health and sense of purpose. They don't have much to offer and wrestle with fears based upon how badly they have been historically mistreated and manipulated by wealthy whites. Their story is full of bizarre consequences. It is a death walk their marches. It is a death sleep their existence supported by the fear of becoming non-existent and the reality of being marginalized." - Gregory E.Woods 9.24.13
When everything is said and done... All people will be dealt with accordingly due to their actions and intent. I encourage my black people to wake up and choose which side you are on.Kijhana Roby
Wait this article is old and I don't think it was written by a true Klan member. 1 because stating what we are doing wrong is one of the best ways to stop us from doing wrong. And 2. they say in this article that we are breaking our race down with Jungle fever yet it also breaks their race down... I don't know about this one! -Andy GogetmesomeCheesecake Smith
"That was common phrase used in the South during Jim Crow days. This sentiment has not receded from memory, or American culture. It has found a way to be silent, and express itself at the best opportunities to kill and get away with it. It expresses itself in fans during football games. It expresses itself in many of the murders we hear on American news, and is part of the humor of white men who define humor by how close their words can get to the edge of violence and mayhem, or the bizarre, and pass for funny. There is a spirit that belongs to this kind of humor, and it is given expression on shows like JACKASS, or Saturday Night Live, the John Steward show, etc..
In private Black men talk about this. We are very sensitive to it, and as fathers it is a whispered subject of concern: how to raise and train our children in this subtle atmosphere, and not cause them to behave like a Colored child growing up in the 1930's.". ~ Gregory E. Woods 8.30.12
Cheryl Peters, your reaction on Kick Ass pics, "Ignorance is bliss ya dum fuck." struck me. It struck a cord as I realized there were a lot of unsaid things expressed in the one sentence you used. I assume you took offense at the reaction of Bill Austin who said in response to that noose joke, "Too funny this is like the gift that keeps on giving lol."
There was something more in your statement, and looking at your picture I got a better sense of you. I could be off, but I think not. I like your boldness, and I think you take care of people, and speak up for those who can't, won't, or don't know how! Good for you. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
