Jeremiah Wright, and the police slaughter of Sean Bell, have pulled the scab off the putirifying wound of white supremacy once again… and Obama is finding that rhetoric about “racial reconciliation” cannot fume itself into reality. The Clinton campaign has devolved into little more than an ill-concealed Jim Crow performance.

I am ashamed of my country. We are a beacon of selfishness, ambition, and hypocrisy to the world.

Over the last several days, I watched Rev. Jeremiah Wright in discussions of faith, theology, history, and culture on television. The three-plus hours I devoted to PBS and CNN amounted to some of the most sophisticated and thoughtful programming on American culture and racial issues that any news station has offered in recent years. And, for those who really listened to Rev. Wright, he moved from being a political liability in the current presidential campaign to demonstrating why he is one of the nation’s most compelling spokespersons of the African-American community and of progressive Christianity.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/19/huckabee-defends-rev-jer_n_92346.html

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Buzz up!on Yahoo!Via Ben Smith:

An assist from an unexpected quarter:
“[Y]ou can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,” Huckabee says. “It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what … Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say ‘Well, I didn’t mean to say it quite like that.’”

Later, he defended Wright’s anger, too:

“As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say ‘That’s a terrible statement!’ … I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names…”

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Watch this video again, and see how the interviewers want to draw Huckabee out to say something controversial about Wright. Instead of playing along, Huckabee talks about growing up in the segregated South, and says had he been treated the way Blacks were treated, he would be angry too, and maybe even angrier, so let’s not throw stones. Look how his response changed the interviewers’ demeanor, and dissipated the atmosphere of attack that had prevailed a moment ago. I wish I would have the courage, wisdom and eloquence to say something like that in a similar situation. In fact, I think Americans of good will on either side of the political divide wish more of our public life were in the hands of people who behave in this manner, whether overtly religious or not.

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If you spend some time looking around their site, you might find some specific answers on how to deal with pollution when growing food in urban areas.

Another interesting thing to map would be how these overlap, but also when and how you might feel forced to “choose between” relationships in any number of ways.

Some of these nets will “breathe,” and some will be very tight and insular. That has to have some bearing on things like social action organizing, and on the power psychologies of groups.

see for example this study on lead accumulation in grapes planted close to motor vehicle roads — presumably lead specifically is less of an issue since the widespread adoption of unleaded mogas, but there are lots of other toxins being farted out by mvs…. here’s a study on lettuce grown near highways. (btw did you know there is a slight but measurable increase in the occurrence of childhood leukaemia mappable to residential proximity to roads carrying more than (iirc) 20K mv trips per diem?) anyway, I was told from early youth not to eat berries from hedges bordering major motorways, parking lots etc., and it seems good advice.