Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone:

Today's cities are immense jails holding prisoners of fear, where fortresses masquerade as homes and armor as clothing.

A state of siege. Do not get distracted, do not let down your guard, do not ever trust, say the lords of the world, masters of impunity who rape the environment , kidnap countries, extort wages, and murder by throng. Watch out they warn, the bad guys are right there, huddled in miserable slums, chewing on their envy, resentfully licking their wounds.

The poor, the ragamuffins for all bondage, the dead for all wars, the flesh for all prisons, the bargain-basement hands for all jobs.

And so it goes. We may find out that our government may have wanted to turn our army against us.

The official press is incessantly in competition to see who can ask the president the most salient question which will play loudest as a soundbite in the overnight and morning news cycles. Judging by what was talked about after this news conference, I would say that Lynn Sweet's question about the H.L. Gates incident won.

Somewhere in the competition the question by Christi Parsons was vaporized

During the campaign, you promised that healthcare negotiations would take place on C-SPAN. And that hasn't happened. And your administration recently turned down a request from a watchdog group seeking a list of healthcare executives who have visited the White House to talk about healthcare reform. Also, the TARP inspector general recently said that your White House is withholding too much information on the bank bailouts. So my question for you is, are you fulfilling your promise of transparency in the White House?

When the Congressional Black Caucus elected Barbara Lee as its leader, I thought the caucus was announcing a more progressive stance than it has had in its most recent past. I came to this conclusion because D-Barbara Lee (Oakland) is one of the few (if any) members of Congress to stand up against the Bush Administration dragging our country to war in Iraq. She is also one of a hand few of members in Congress to formally protest the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Lee is one of the best representatives in the whole House. She is progressive in every sense the word. She supports the repeal the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act. I had the pleasure of attending a 2008 presidential political rally in San Francisco with her and Gavin Newsom.

And she is leading the charge in the effort to include more progressive policy when it comes to health care reform.

I will just give the place on the the web and let him explain.

Well, here we are back at square one. It is the same case but with a different local. There is a solution to this recurring theme: desegregation. Desegregation by ethnic group and by class. Detractors will say that it is unfair to put children on a school bus two hours a day. I would ask the detractors to ask any parent in a low income and mostly racial segregated area what they want most for their children and ( I will to take the answer to the bank ) they will say, a good education.

I say, we pay now or we pay later with a lawsuit. I would rather pay now with equal access to educational opportunities than pay later with an appearance in court. If ethnic, racial or economic segregated individuals have equal access to education, I mean the same quality of text books, quality of facilities, and  quality of teachers, I believe these cases would be a welcome relic of the past.