Another Pick - On Southern Prejudice
A Short, True Tale... ...From my days in San Francisco Get's another "Pick" from the NYTimes. I apologize. When AIDS was just coming out, I was home in Texas and the subject came up. I was chatting with an old pal who said, "It's just a queers' disease." I told him it was already proven that anyone could catch it, which he denied ferociously and went on to give HIV a Biblical twist. Then today, I saw a story in the NYTimes by a Houston doctor bemoaning how HIV is still rampant in Houston while San Francisco has it mostly under control. Up bubbled my memory of that old conversation, and I wrote a cynical "comment" that picked on the South - mostly unfairly. Some comments moderator agreed with my umbrage and 'picked' my comment. I apologize for being a categorical insulter, a category I mostly despise. This one I'm not that proud of :\