Misc.

So, you want to fix the world.
Start by looking beyond what you think is going on to find what is really going on.

In my neighborhood I am the minority. I am defined as “white”. The majority of my neighbors are defined as “black”. The next largest ethnic group would be “hispanic”.

I have lived in the same place since 1981. I moved in to a racially/ethnically diverse area with little thought about it. I naively believed it did not matter. Fast forward to 2006 – IT MATTERS!

At first glance it is easy to decide that race is the key issue here – but is it really? What has changed in the past two decades can steer the direction from one of race to one of economics. Property values have skyrocketed making it less and less financially feasible for many of us to move upward or out. The large immigration from the bay area folks has sealed our fate. Those of us left/stuck here are not rich. Many owners have rented their homes out via Section 8 to get out. Now the average household is well below the national poverty level. If poverty breeds violence – ding – ding – ding – we have a winner!

Washing my truck out in front of my home can steer the direction back from economics to race. While vacuuming the inside out a young black male for whatever reason needs to walk up stick his head and upper body into my vehicle, glance at the radio, then scan the contents of my vehicle, snicker, glance up and give me a look that can be only described as designed to provoke fear, and then walk away, glancing back at me until he is out of sight. Later only to return with two friends conversing load enough for me to hear choice words: white devils, stereo, alarms, later, and chill nig**.

The outside of my truck is still dirty. The ghetto bird (a police helicopter usually following a suspect) is flying overhead. The speaker of a car that just drove by has knocked another picture off the wall. ..

So, you want to fix the world?

Here is a post – wide open.

You decide. Pick the next topic – I am lazy.

Responses will be read – and maybe thought about – maybe not 😉

Conversations with myself …  blog, blog, blog …

If salmon is cooked wrong it tastes yuk yuk yukky. So, any of you that are fortunate enought to have some fresh salmon steaks/fillet’s around here is my favorite way to prepare dah salmon for eating:

Pre heat the oven to 350 deg. F.

Place the fillet on baking pan. Sprinkle finely chopped dried dill, lemon pepper and salt on it.

Allow the fillet to sit for 10 minutes.

Place one table spoon of butter on the fillet and cover the tray with aluminum foil. Bake for 15 minutes and it is ready to be eat. Longer for steaks.