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Yes. And not just back East. You can change laws very quickly, it takes generations to change attitudes.
--Pete
In all fairness, I just checked Wikipedia.org, Urban Dictionary.com, and Dictionary.com yet could not find a single definition for "Back East", yet typing it into google brings up a myriad of links with personal tastes about what that phrase means, albeit all slightly different.
I suppose what I meant by that phrase was that here in California, I hardly ever seen racism of that level, and when you do, you get the LA Riots. What was so shocking to me was the justice of the peaces exclamation, lets call it his candor for irony sake, that he did the right thing. His nonchalance about the whole situation just irks me, and I don't believe thats something you would find common on the West Coast, at least not from someone of his stature.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin