Can we all get along?

Last week, Rodney King died. His passing has many speculating on social, political, and racial growth and change over the past 20 years as a nation in general, and Los Angeles in particular.

I encourage you to be as candid as possible and to argue Rodney King's famous quote, "Why can't we all get along?"

Money Matters

If the U.S. created a $25 dollar bill, which prominent American (living or deceased) do you think should be represented on it?

Food for Everyone

The Georgia Museum of Agriculture in Tifton has a small section on food, where barbeque figures prominently. One panel suggests that barbecue is one of the foods that brings people together across gender, age, race, class and other social barriers.  This point has merit.

What food items or categories (NOT restaurants) can you think of that truly transcend the boundaries of our social divisions?

Let’s take religion out of the equation, as Judaism and Islam place prohibitions on pork. Hindus don’t consume beef, and they, along with many Buddhist, are often vegetarians.  There are too many religious restrictions to note, so for this situation, we are only considering gender, age, race and class.

Road Rage

The Monday/Wednesday “face-to-face” class brought this story to my attention.  

While completely naked, Rudy Eugene of Miami attacked a homeless man and began eating his face.  According to the details noted in the NPR story (see link below) Eugene behaved like an animal. There are ties in this story to cannibalism (chapter 2- taboo), feral children (chapter 3) and more.

This story is odd at best. Some are calling Rudy Eugene the Miami Zombie. Follow up accounts suggest his fit of rage was brought on by the use of bath salts. I don’t have a specific question. This is a free for all. What do you think about this story?

Warning the link below is fairly graphic in details.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=153900517