Well this ought to make the company look really good PR-wise.

Burger King VP Stephen Grover used his daughters email address from behind which to slander the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group trying to gain fairer wages for migrant farm workers.

Really, it's more on race and class in the U.S.

Got into a disagreement about gentrification at church today. Even tho we supposedly welcome a variety of views in our congregation, I guess I am always surprised when certain views clash so much.

Today was our last official day in Boston, and Alex, Lisa, and I decided to have breakfast in the dining room of the hotel in which we're staying. Except "hotel" isn't quite the right word for it. The Union Club was founded as a "club" for the Boston elite (ie - old, white, moneyed men) in order to support the Union side of the Civil War. It's august walls are decorated with paintings and portraits of old, white, moneyed men.

As an Asian American, I am always torn between two worlds. As a UU of color, I feel the same way. And at no time do I feel it more than when I am with my family.

For those of you who don't know DC, it is a patchwork of race and class - stately mansions in some areas and rundown rowhouses in others, luxury condos and housing projects, and middleclass, single-family houses. The conventional wisdom is that you want to live in NW.

UU World published an article called, Not My Father's Religion in its Fall edition that I didn't think much about. I didn't think much about it because I agreed with what it said and thought it fairly obvious. Ours is a religion of the privileged. It is less likely to appeal to those who are working class. This is something that we need to work on.

One uncomfortable truth that few of us openly talk about is that to be "liberal" usually means to be socially conscious... AND generally (not always) of a higher socio-economic class than those we seek to help.

When people are suffering and we can help, we must help. That is undeniable. But in the helping, it is all too easy to start thinking that we are in some way superior instead of remembering our privilege. Too easy to become elitists.

One thing that continually amazes me about the city in which I live, the nation's capital, is how drastically different the neighborhoods are - grimy poverty side-by-side with opulent excess. I wonder why we allow either one to continue.

Whoopie Goldberg has joined the crew of "The View." I think I've seen a minute part of one episode of that show. It's continuing staff changes would normally be of no concern to me, except that Whoopie has apparently stepped immediately into hot water by "defending" Michael Vick. People across the political spectrum are outraged that she could defend what they consider to be such an obviously heinous man.

Well, what exactly did she say? These are the quotes I could find:

"He's from the South, from the Deep South ... This is part of his cultural upbringing..."