Friday, September 23, 2011   My wife brings her problems to me.
Sometimes they are big problems, often they are small, but most
of them come to me. We discuss them, we argue about them, and
eventually, we figure out what we're going to do. Sometimes a
real solution is developed, other times we walk away disgusted,
but we only get to that point after hashing things out. The same
process gets repeated with my problems.  See, you don't solve
problems by pretending they don't exist. Sweeping them under
rug, where they are allowed to fester and grow, solves nothing.
If you're poor, you solve it by either reducing expenses or
finding more money. If you're sick, you solve it by getting
healthy. When you're hungry, the solution is eating, when you're
tired, the solution is rest.  It's only with racism that the
solution is doing nothing.  Don't agree? Then why do so many
people of so many different hues consistently argue that
discussions, debates and studies about racial problems in
America and across the world are