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For anyone who watches 'Lost', there was a scene in the season finale where Jack goes into a funeral home to view a body.  The director of the episode made a point to show that Jack was in a predominantly Black neighborhood.  I immediately wondered what he was doing in this part of town and who was he going to see. When he enters the empty funeral home, the casket was sitting up front with no one else in the room.  A black man, who seemed to be a preacher or funeral home director comes out from the back.   There are two places where white folks and black folks truly don't trust one another: barbershops and funeral homes. (I'm cutting church a break on this one).  I can't imagine there being a white body in that casket.  What white person do you know who was buried in a black funeral home or vice versa?  There is a lot of internet speculation that John Locke or Sawyer (both white characters) were being funeralized in the future during the show's season finale.  There are a few strange things about this scene however, one being the fact that no one showed up ...

Dallas South Blog: What is the purpose of Concerned Citizens for Racial Equality? Brenda Cherry:   We formed CCFRE in 2003 after we filed complaints regarding PISD staff calling black children names such as stupid and lazy. We also noticed that on a daily basis, approx 90% of the students sitting in detention and OCS were African-American. We asked one of the assistant principals why Afican-American children were punished at such a higher percentage than white children. He said it was because black parents are not able to be proper parents because black parents come from a lower socio-economic status and have single parents households. He stated that his family “was poor when he was a child but his family was clean”. When the school board disregarded our complaints, we asked the Paris NAACP to look into it. Robert High was Vice-President of the NAACP as well as an assistant to the PISD superintendent. His response was “I’m not going to sit here and let you talk bad about my school”. The chief of police also blew off any complaints we filed. The same for complaints regarding housing. That lead us to form CCFRE, because we realized that there ...