I would like to join your community’s Neighborhood Watch program. I carry my own weapon and do not listen to police directives. I profile Black people and follow them and kill if I think I’d lose an altercation I instigated. Please call for references (my defense lawyer and cop friend). I’m available immediately. It’s Florida, have gun will travel! Sincerely, George Z.
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How far have we come since JFK/LBJ/RFK’s laws were passed. Sure, Blacks can go to the lunch counter and ride the bus, but are they allowed into a gated community to visit their family? To buy Skittles and juice?
I am told I now live in the most racist city in the US. There is hatred here and we’re up north of the Mason-Dixon Line. As opportunities arise in the South, I’d rather not go there. Texas is a different animal altogether as they think they’re a nation but are a state, think they’re free but there is a reason for June-teenth, June 19th when the final slaves in NE Texas were told the war was over and they were free.
This weekend we were told by a judge and jury that the man who profiled, followed, called the police on and disregarding police orders again followed and shot a boy, is innocent due to Florida law.
Unfortunately, I agree that the jury had to follow Florida law. These are terrible laws that were enacted in anger and frustration and not principled as they should be.
My husband grew up on a farm. His daddy has a gun cabinet well-hidden from everyone (I’ve never seen it) but will kill a coyote if it’s killing his cattle. He and his brother learned to shoot early. His brother hunts deer every fall, but we don’t have a single gun in the house. I like it that way. If he tried to make me have a pistol in my bedside table I’d be terrified of it and shooting him or myself in an attempted break-in.
What I need to ask is this: both my husband and watch dog slept 12 hours through a hurricane (I stayed up and blogged it until the power went out). If someone broke in, how would I awaken them? Think about it and please let me know. Dee
Cooking with Dee 
Val, I already know what you’re going to say. Have the pistol, shoot at the ceiling and they’ll awaken! No, that’s not on my program. How about one of those blast thingies they use to start a rigatta? Even a megaphone might work. They slept through a hurricane and 149 of 150 units were damaged. All except ours. Your mother can explain that one. xo D