It's a cruel business, Kel, filled with some of the most hateful and self-hating people you can imagine. But if the kid's got chops, you know how to reach me.
> Lila Lipscomb's family is _their_ family. They live in multi-racial
> families. They know what it's like to few choices. They know what it's
like
> to play b-ball on broken down courts or in the street.
This is very common in this part of Michigan (and I suppose in poor/working class neighbs everywhere). I think I told of the time I went to the funeral of a black co-worker's infant daughter who drowned in the bathtub. His wife (now ex- -- seems the agony of the loss was too much for them to stay together) was white, and the funeral itself was roughly 50/50, perhaps a bit more black than white. In any case, everyone seemed perfectly relaxed with one another, I mean, apart from the sadness and grief. At that level of society, skin color really makes little difference. It's the shared economic status that binds them together. And I think that was one of the stronger bits in Moore's film -- the portrayal of this class and how it is the both the economic dumping ground and military recruiting pool of the rich and those who are politically connected to them. Funny how most critics of the film don't go into this area, esp one critic who once fancied himself "socialist."
DP