I know the last name you use online, I see no issues. Odd that really. Try having a name like mine during WW2.

On topic

Anyway, my thoughts on the security issue:

You have 2 choices because they aren't going to stop checking.

1) stop flying.
2) accept.

You cannot hardly blame the people trying to secure. If you wanna go on a crusade, blame the root cause, not the portion that interferes with your lives.

Thankfully.

My point was, each generation has its issues. In WW2 it was mainly Japanese and Germans. I may not have been alive but, I do have kinfolk that were. Actually most of them are dead now, but they were alive when I was your age and I talked to them.

If there is a bright side, be glad you are born now. Japanese Americans during WW2 were placed in concentration camps. You are still free... More less.

My sympathies though. I do understand.

I know I told you once, but I had a great Grandma who was on the trail of tears. Tis why I sometimes bring up native American topics. They really took a beating on that trail. It wasn't a good generation for the Cherokee.

Sounds more like "Fahrenheit 451" to me.

In fact, Nickels comment stinks of segregation. I have met many people I consider equals. I have met many I respect. I have yet to meet my better.

Its been 3 decades at least since I read 451. All I remember about it was burning books to keep people stupid and promoting a semblance of segregation. (I think)

I am silly about racism. I cannot stand any form of it and separating people into classes just because their skin color is considered lowly is very upsetting.

My wife told me this: The other night she took her mom to the Emergency room at the hospital 2 days ago. While she was there she noticed a Mexican mother with 3 children. They were apparently there before she arrived. The children were sick and throwing up in succession. My wife told me they had to call house keeping several times to clean up the puke. They finally brought this poor mom a bucket for the kids to throw up in.

This poor mom sat there and no one would see them. After my wifes mom came out from seeing the Doctor, she noticed the mother was still waiting. My wife took it upon herself to finally complain. It took a white woman complaining before the poor mom and 3 kids were seen.

Crap like this shouldn't happen.

Wow, get the f**k off the boards. I've never said that to anyone, and I hope I never have to say that to anyone again.

Members of a disenfranchised group in society cannot be held accountable for the state of their group. Complicated history, rather than a sequence of moral choices for which Mexicans as a group somehow hold collective responsibility, has placed their country at a lower standard of living than ours. And in any case, vindicating them for being generally poor - and yes, implying that they are uniquely responsible for how they're doing is vindication, derision, insult - is at best counterproductive and at worst outright cruel. You may just be part of what's wrong with this country.