Slick Oil, Slick Laws, Sick Cop Kicks... Musical Asprin

I’m trying not to feel jaded and angered by the drama happening in Seattle. But first, the video of police brutality and racist slur by the Seattle Police Department surfaces. Then we know the TV station that had the video held it for weeks, as the departments “urging.” (http://www.king5.com/video/raw/Watch-Seattle-PD-officer-stomps-suspect-uses-racial-comment-93140299.html )

Then Arizona passes it’s form of modern Apartheid. Now other states are jumping on the Pilgrim wagon and following the lead. Now, The Dream Act seems more and more like a dream than ever before. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052804319.html )

Then the world nastiest oil spill continues to sludge in the Mexican Gulf. (I can't even look at images anymore...)

Finally, North and South Korea are once again at the starting line for “who blinks first.” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052700642.html?wprss=rss_world/asia )

I’m trying not to feel blue, with the “rainier than usual” Seattle Spring, this week most days in the 50’s.

Instead I want to enjoy the few moments of fleeting sun, the bulbs that sprouted flowers in my front lawn, the FREE Common concert on the UW campus, which was surprisingly poorly advertised and even more poorly attended (a sign of a truly privileged institution: a top hip hop artist on a top class stage and great sound system, unlike the sound gear at the Showbox SODO, where NAS and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley killed it).

I’d rather see the positive in having way too many Teriyaki places to choose from and not enough Mexican places where artificial yellow chesse isn’t added to everything, the good in June Graduation Ceremonies, and Tia and Amanda walk the stage, adding to the educated women of color pool, and the good in Jill Scott and Maxwell’s upcoming concert at KEY ARENA.

Yes, I have tickets, and I can’t wait to be in a shielded stadium, top notch R&B artists on a top class stage and great sound system, drowning out the police stompings, oil slicks, and constant drips down meandering drains out to the Puget Sound, where heavy metals and chemicals contaminate the water in a more subtle way.