> I'm on the bread stuffin line; with walnuts
> and celery and apples and onions; sometimes
> oysters. (mouth watering) , and my kids hate
> it. My mother-in-law made giblet gravy to
> pour over everything, which they love to and
> I quietly avoid. I love gizzard and livers
> cooked by them selves but not the gravy.
> I've gotten old an peculiar, I guess.

I've seen a recipe very similar to that in my Recipes-of-Louisiana cookbook. Sorry, Woodie, but it must be an acquired taste. You'd hafta grow up with it or something - especially with oysters.

Now, giblet gravy is something that my mom and aunts always made, as well. I don't get into it myself, though.

> You stated:

> Well, true, but the fact that there are
> still so many whites that have not changed a
> whit, especially in the deep south. I had a
> neighbor that was a very nice man in every
> way. He helped me plant a garden. Taught my
> son to tie every knot in the book in scouts
> (he had been a Merchant Seaman), Just was
> the kinds and best neighbor. Then I went to
> visit his wife in the hospital and he and
> his adult son were watching a basketball
> game and and all this racist stuff just
> poured out of them both. It was "that
> N... this and N... That and God did good
> when he made them N...s to entertain us.
> "

> I was shocked and he just wondered why. He
> seemed to think it was normal. I have
> discovered that a lot of what folks think is
> change has just gone underground. There is a
> lot of hate, bitterness and suspicion on
> both sides but the arrogance and power of
> white bigotry is still a viable force in the
> south. I doubt it is just in the south
> though. I found some of the worst of it in
> Chicago one summer when I worked there in
> college. It was buried in lies and innuendos
> and power plays. Well, sorry for the
> sideline.

I haven't run into much racism around here. There aren't that many blacks that live in San Antonio; however, there are a few in my neighborhood and some in my Bible-study group. In Alabama, however, I do run into the undercurrent quite a lot. There are many blacks that continue to be suspicious and bitter against whites. I was born and lived in Selma, Al for a number of years. You can't get much more divided than that place or Montgomery. A lot of whites have left Selma.

Did you hear about the racial slurs that recently came from Michael Richards the Seinfeld actor? It's been a major story on the local and national news. That guy's career is finished. Personally, I think that his anger at the heckler took control, and he sunk to the lowest insult that he could produce. My sister thinks that he was trying to be funny by using a twisted, dark humor. He hasn't said as much, however.