Try years......my first posts on the PNJ riled the rednecks when I spoke of dog whistles ten years ago.....but I spoke of my experience in North Birmingham Alabama among people I loved and respected....pure hate, fear, and prejudice. My brother and I kept swimming when the black kids jumped into the pool in North Birmingham, and I will remember until the day I will die all the white people getting out of the pool and the hateful stares toward my brother and I....I also remember beloved cousin telling me she did not want to "catch anything" as the reason she had exited the pool.....she was 12.......No, I have lived my life fighting injustice, and I have not made people happy at times.....I could have chose a scardy cat life where I went with the flow....I am not built that way.....I got banned from my country club because I stood up at the annual meeting and said it was insane to spend five million squaring off the tee boxes.....I get peer pressure.....the silent treatment......the whisper.....but righteous choice are never easy....they are often painful.....after five years of being banned because I stood up and wrote a letter to the board of directors pointing out the insanity of poor choices, they just sent my a letter asking me to come back.....basically admitting I was right as there membership went from 238 to 110 because everything I said was correct......I listened to people say Seaoat....be quiet.....just let it go....go with the flow......oh and Bob when that Lesbian couple were being terrorized by a neighbor, and others turned there heads, it was me who took the bastard on, going to the police who would do nothing, but when I went to his boss who was somebody who knew me, I neutered the bastard and those kind women no longer were terrorized.....yea....I am a pain in the asz....I am arrogant, and like a preacher who thinks he has it all figured out, I believe we all have choices between good and evil.....I choose good, and I make no apologies to those who tacitly support evil.