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I’ll never forget my senior year of high school I wrote a paper about race relations in the United States for my American Government class. I was writing in favor of racial equality but from the standpoint of racial transparency. My thought was that if we could stop considering race in any way, people would be less likely to use race in a way against, say, a job applicant, thus removing the ability for the applicant to appeal a job denial on the basis of race, as an example.

Not only did the pseudo-anti-affirmative-action argument fall flat with my teacher, I used the word “niggling” in one part of the paper and was written up for racial insensitivity. Word spread like wildfire, and I was all of a sudden this second coming of Hitler among my peers.

I can DEFINITELY relate to the letters in this story. Thankfully mine didn’t go as far as some of these folks did, but I’ll say it again, “If you listen carefully, you can hear the death knell of the white, Christian male in the very near future.”

Not only did the pseudo-anti-affirmative-action argument fall flat with my teacher, I used the word “niggling” in one part of the paper and was written up for racial insensitivity.

Thank your guardian angel that you didn't use the word niggardly.

I used the word “niggling” in one part of the paper and was written up for racial insensitivity.

It was about 15 years ago. A liberal (white) DC bureaucrat used to word niggardly (stingy) to describe some total of public funds for a program --the amount should be higher, he said.

The black establishment exploded, and he was made to resign, after apoligizing.

This guy they canned? Was a lib GAY dude...

In the army we have an observance for everyone except the European/white male. I tried to get one started at Fort Gordon, Georgia through the Equal Opportunity office. I was told we weren’t a minority and therefore not entitled to one. I pursued it stating that it is supposed to be EQUAL for all not just minorities. Eventually I was called into the battalion commander’s office because he heard I was trying to start a “white rally” on base. The observance never happened. I was transferred within two months of trying to get it done.

Note: my section leader, platoon Sgt, first seargeant, company commander, battalion SGT Maj, battalion commander, regimental commander and the EO rep were all black.