I occasionally watch the news shows such as the Kelly report, O’Reilly, etc.  I don’t have a favorite because all them apparently have an agenda.  They are not reporting the news in  an unbiased manner, but simply are doing what I am doing at this very moment, giving you my views and thoughts on a subject that I am not an expert on.  There are several jokes about opinions and about things that we all have one of that I wont be specific about.  You have all heard the joke.

The recent events in Missouri have reinforced my thoughts about racial equality.  I know that African americans were brought to our shores against their will.  My family owned many of these individuals back in Mississippi in days gone by.  I have not ever owned anyone.  I have employed people who might think I was a slave driver but they got to go home at night and got paid a fair wage so dont think they were in too much stress.  It baffles the hell out of me when I see a person of color running out of a liquor store carrying 3 quarts of lemon flavored vodka and a big orange drink, hollering about polilce brutality.  The sumbitch just broke the window out of the store with a baseball bat and he is yelling that he is not getting a fair shake.  Free vodka is pretty damned fair to me.  The step father of the young man (deceased) that caused this ado was taped while he stood on a car hood urging the mob to burn things down.  He grabbed his crotch more times than MJ.  He did not, and I remind you that I may not have been present, look to me that he was in a great deal of discomfort about the loss of his wife’s son.  He appeared to me that he might have been a tad disappointed that he wasnt on the vodka run down at the liquor store.  It seems to me that if we had a few less apperances by Al Sharpton and persons of his ilk in times of strife that we would be much better off.

I dont think the Furgason, Mo situation has helped relations between police and the public. I dont think it ever had a chance to do that.  Setting up a commission to study whether police have become too much like a military unit will not help matters either.  What I think will help is for each of us to try to do the best we can to be nice to our fellow man, no matter what the color of their skins.  I dont mean that you have to be nice to the guy who loots your liqour store, but I know that I can improve my relations with some people.

G