Choosing Civility in Howard County? How uncivil: revisited

It's been an interesting trip since I first posted the original Choose Civility post in 2008. I've been writing a lot more than before, but not as much as I would like to. I've changed jobs and have been having a blast with that. The commute can be a bit of a pain, but it has it's benefits. P. M. Forni has been on Oprah shilling his hissy fit to a national audience, and we've had 2 public displays of incivility on the national stage in the forms of Rep. Joe Wilson and Kanye West. So given all of that, it's time to take a second look at the issue as well about the opportunity to bitch that my magnet was stolen off my car yesterday.

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Thoughts...

What an interesting world we live in. I remember that when I was in high school, race relations were still tense. Even here in Columbia, MD, there was a tension between the races despite our more open attitudes. I remember when Neo Nazis were running around and being bold about it. I remember the race riots of LA on TV. I remember seeing Do The Right Thing in the movie theaters as well as the conversations that followed. And even within the past several years, I have seen its more subtle forms when people mock gangsta rap and hip-hop culture in general for not conforming to proper society (read: the way white people do things).

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