Now, I’d be one of the first to jump on the “blame the neo-con” bandwagon, but one needs to look within the communities first. This stuff was happening way before The Shrub came around.

The more educated the people at the bottom become, the less power those at the top of the pyrimid have to wield. Why else would there be such a push to reinstitute racial segragation in the public school sphere along with a push to keep diversity education and protections for GLBT, religious, and racial minorities out as well? All that one needs to do is take a good hard look at post-Katrina New Orleans to see what the GOP thinks about educating America’s youth. And if a child is bullied for being gay, trans, or a member of a specific racial/religious minority, that child will have a hard time learning anything in school. And that sits quite well with those in power, or something would be done about it at the federal level. They don’t want educated blacks, educated women, or educated GLBT persons.

Kanye West was spot on with his comment “George Bush doesn’t like black people.” You can insert gays, trannies, and/or non-christians into that statement and it still holds true. But it’s not just the prez, but the whole top-tier power structure as illustrated in Ms. Kate’s gender/class/race pyrimid that doesn’t like any of us who are at the bottom.