I'm hard-pressed to figure out how to respond to yesterday's vote -- and boy do I miss Mattnet for its use in sharpening my thoughts. I'm pissed beyond coherence, I'm deeply disappointed in humanity, I'm not really surprised at our pettiness, and I'm feeling as if I flew in from some alternate universe to one that makes no sense.

I'm young enough that I grew up seeing a blatant truth: segregation was morally wrong. In 1997, I was shocked that just 40 years earlier, the blind hatred of blacks was so pervasive that the presence of cameras wasn't a deterrent to behavior as shown in pictures like this one, with people openly spewing invective at their fellow Americans in the streets. The hate was that deep. The behavior is so clearly, so palpably, wrong.

( I cannot for the life of me see how this isn't exactly the same thing...and other long rambling thoughts. )

How small we seem.