"Stop calling [Obama] a muslim and saying he not a citizen and call him a nigger..."

Satiating my addiction to Facebook, a friend of mine posted a Shaun King article on her page. Then I watched Fareed Zakaria’s comments on Anderson Cooper 360. King’s quote stood out the most to me. King wrote:

Here’s the thing though – I think the same reason NYPD police officers that saw upstanding citizen Amadou Diallo with his wallet and “thought” it was gun and proceeded to shoot him 41 times is the same reason 50 million people don’t like ...President Obama’s politics and proceed to conclude he is a non-American Muslim. The same spirit feeds both conclusions. An upstanding black man with a wallet is thought to be a dangerous criminal with a gun. A very intelligent American Christian black man that is president is not really as he appears – his wallet is a gun – it must be.

I was then reminded of a former student of mine... (insert flash back music here).

By the Grace of God

Please take time to send up prayers for those individuals who experienced nature's wrath this past weekend. Thankfully my family in North Carolina was spared the brunt of the impact, but others were not.

Phill