DOWN WITH PANTS!

Occasionally on his way home from work Down With Pants! listens to the Tavis Smiley show on NPR. Yesterday I caught it briefly, but the part I heard was fascinating. Tavis had Connie Rice on the show to do her regular top ten segment. The top ten for the day was the top ten things said about Baghdad that you'll never hear said about Watts or other US ghettos.

#10 - Isn't it great that Iraqi's are now free to flood their streets with tens of thousands of protestors in open demonstration.
#9 - There's no physical security without economic security.

And the list goes on and really makes some good points. It exposes some of the great hypocrisy in this war and in this country. Here we are bringing peace and democracy to Iraq, but we can't even get it right in our own country. One of the early drafts of the new Iraqi constitution ensures equal representation for minorities and women in their parliament or congress and also proposes standardized health care. Why can't we get that?

Listen to the whole segment by visiting Tavis Smiley's website.