We spoke for nearly an hour on the background to the situation in Israel and Palestine, the delegation i led in January and why this should be of importance–as an issue–to African Americans. During the course of the interview i received an interesting piece of hate-mail. I do not know whether it was a coincidence or whether the individual who sent the hate mail was listening. It was a really nutty and threatening note. As is said: “…they’re out there…”