[MysticCat]

Thanks for your response Sugar08. I do understand better now where you were coming from on the Uncle Tom label.

I guess I didn't read the column as laying out everything the writer had to say on the subject, but rather as simply discussing a specific reaction he had to the protest. That is to say, I perhaps assumed that he was not dismissing other real or root problems, but was just doing what I do sometimes -- taking particular note of a particular reaction.

But I can see your point.