Oyster I guess is an acquired taste. I made it with them when living tin San Francisco one year, I was really goo, though I don't go out of my way to eat them.

> I've seen a recipe very similar to that in
> my Recipes-of-Louisiana cookbook.

I have a friend from LA that on my side. He grew up with the Bread stuffing and oysters. Louisianians eats a alot of sea food.

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.

Selma was the heart of it for a while. I lived in Birmingham AL for 8 years in my teen and early college years. I have trouble driving through.

> Did you hear about the racial slurs that
> recently came from Michael Richards the
> Seinfeld actor?

Pretty sick in my opinion. I saw the clip of him, he was angry and running his mouth. He seemed to be saying to the heckler and other people just what was in his racist little mind. Most o the folks just walked out. You'd think a few generations would make a difference, but as the song goes in the musical South Pacific ,

You have to be taught before it's too late,
before you are six or seven or eight,
to hate all the people you'r relatives hate,
you have to be carefully taught.