(This is as far as we have come in the new millennium? Very, very sad state of affairs.)

Sure is, and not just on moral grounds for those of us not Afro-Americans. As a result of the civil rights revolution, they can't just screw Afro-Americans directly, they have to screw the places they are from.

Other people live there too. So other people are also "represented" by those who are just looking to get paid themselves, or who have burned out any idealism they might have had.