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First, I want to compliment you on your post.

While I agree with ALL that you have said, this is a tough subject for me to discuss without a big risk of offending some of the Blacks on FR. You see, I admit that I am not as bright as many and a wordsmith I will never be.

I have never been racist in my entire life (I am 64). I am Scots-Irish, obviously white. Other than in the Army when I was a kid, I have not lived around Blacks.

The past 4 years has taught me much about the Black community, or at least what it has become, most of which I find disgusting. For example, I didn’t know that the Blacks had churches where they actually preach and pray about their hate for the White race.

I still respect many Blacks, Allen West comes to mind. There are a few Blacks on Fox that have earned my respect. American history has many heroes, a good many were Black.

Heck, the mechanic that comes to my home to work on my boat is Black, he’s a very nice guy and a good tech. I haven’t discussed politics with him, because I know that if I learned he was a damn dem and/or voted for Obama, I would have fired him on the spot. In my county of about 80 thousand people there are only about a dozen Blacks. If Blacks decided to riot in my red county, it wouldn’t last more than 10 minutes.

Having said all of that useless drivel, unless I know that a given Black is conservative, I flat don’t trust them and I no longer give a hoot about their “plight”. Still, skin color doesn’t make me like or dislike a person. Heck, I have a sister-in-law who is 100% South Korean.

I suppose some will think of me as racist, but I am at a point that I really don’t care all that much.

As for fixing the race B/S... in my view that is up to the Blacks to fix and I don’t think they want it fixed.

Personally, I think all this ‘reaching out’ to other races is a bunch of crap. They can join me as an American, a patriot and a conservative.... I do not reach out to those that are not interested in anything other than their blind fantasies and my money.

Obama and the dems have done a good job at pitting us against each other and they will never stop. Perhaps they actually want a civil/race war...

This past “election” and the one in 2008 were about “white and American = BAD, brown and foreign = GOOD.”

Even “brown and American = BAD” — see Allen West, Herman Cain, and Mia Love. Unfortunately.

The media has been pounding this into our heads for the last 12 years (at least) and the drumbeat is accelerating.

Thanks for your thoughtful post. You put into words and personal insights many thoughts that many of us have.

I'm the same way too, I'm 46. I'm of German and Swedish heritage on Mom's side and Serbian (my last name is of Serbian roots from Kosovo according to some research I did), Russian and Russian Jew. The last suffered under the pogroms in Russia.

The last 4 years taught me a lot about minority voting along with White guilt and women of all stripes who want government to be big daddy. First off, like you, if they believe in America and what we stand for and are patriots, I have no problems with race, creed, gender or anything. Also add in that when we work, we keep the stuff we earn a well. Until I know if they are loyal to those thigns we hold dear, I hold all under suspicion until I find out otherwise.

I've been called racist too and I don't care anymore. Like you said, it is up to each minority community to stop being like "crabs in a bucket" (the non successful crabs pull in the one(s) that get out of the bucket) and wise up. It has to come from within.

The only "reaching out" I will do and support is if they want to join us as a free-thinking conservative, patriot and producer, if not, forget it.

That said, one of my friends told me that with the election of Obama, we've set back race relations back to 1970 if not further.

To anyone out there, I'm not picking on you if you believe in America, just the ones that act like the Borg before the Borg and vote in a bloc that way.