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right effing on Bill, your kids are lucky. My parents were the ones who would have said, or at least felt, like saying what the Ohio folks said....ah well...I got a rough start. Endedup on a mixed street in Portland OR, and I can say I have evolved some Best

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Enjoyed this tremendously.

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May 20, 2022Liked by Bill Heath

Stunning, as always.

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May 20, 2022Liked by Bill Heath

So "Leg Growing" tends to an autobiography indeed. Recent years, post Obama, we seem to have become hyper conscious about race. I suppose I thought we were progressing nicely to a less racial society until then. Obama used race quite well in addition to being a primo political operative not shy about using the legal system to advantage. Clinton was outgunned as time moved along but she does well to infuriate and insult people anyway. I suspect we will get a new generation and progress will resume.

I suspect the thing we must get done someday is restore public education particularly for the poorest of us. The only hope out of dependency is education. I think the current system has become corrupted by ideology and belief transfer in subtle and not so ways. But like most things, I suspect the pendulum will return because education is failing our children.

In terms of integrated neighborhoods they are always more difficult in that we retain some tribal instincts. Even our neighborhoods have become more politically polarized over time so it isn't even a color thing. Of course as we decimate the middle class we create even more friction, perhaps desired by our elites without that being their intention. OTOH, California seems to be arriving there now with service workers, teachers living in vehicles to work in neighborhoods where they can't afford to live and soon can't afford to commute. Not suitable for families.

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You definitely raised your kids right. I still feel the most important, and most memorable lesson of my integrated big city childhood was to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, thanks to Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Wonderful journey.

Bob LaFollette!!! I earned phd at UW and fighting Bob was a hero. He is one of WI statues in the U.S. capitol. https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/robert-m-la-follette-statue

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