[GBA]

I hate these racists masquerading as people. They focus on race as the central issue, slavery as the major sin of America and themselves as the way to end racism forever. I say we are not guilty.

I know that tension between "races" is alive and well in 2008, but I also know that constantly focusing on race only perpetuates racism. Slavery??? C'mon, America did away with slavery over 100 years ago and the civil rights struggles of the 1960s should have ended the false perceptions and inequality that remained. Instead, we have a small variety of race hustlers who continually harp on race, poor treatment, past sins and why the white people can't be trusted.

If a tenth of the effort was spent on the many, many examples of racial equality and harmony and the success of many individuals instead of on supposed racism, we would be a much better society and racism would go away.

[tobyhill]

The tensions you speak about is due to Affirmative Action. We have people trying to get ahead only because of their race and people looking at race being the reason they couldn't get ahead.