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The problem is especially bad at the schools here in Norfolk, VA. White kids get verbally abused, shoved around, etc. in the public schools. I raised my kids to be "color-blind," thanks to their having lived in Alaska for most of their lives. Racism is bad and I have had many black friends over the years. Yet, after moving to Virginia a few years ago, my kids have become the victims of black prejudice against whites. One of them was robbed in the school by a group of black youths and a year later, he was beaten up by a group of black kids on the street adjacent to the school. My kids don't eat lunch in the cafeteria because they get shoved around and opt to hang with their teachers in their classes where they feel safe. This week, a 300-lb black boy threatened to slap a petite girl he called a "white b*tch" unless she gave up her seat on the bus to him. So much for Rosa Parks and Black History month! The school administrators won't do anything. The police can't do anything. They just file a report.

A Norfolk city council member threatens to bring down Jesse Jackson and the Black Panthers every time a black man gets roughed up while resisting arrest. (Yet a white fool who burned an 8-inch cross on a black person's lawn as a bad joke is possibly facing life in prison for a "hate crime.") Meanwhile, one in four black men in Virginia can't vote because they are felons. It's a scary feeling living in a place where 50% of the population thinks that O.J. Simpson was truly innocent! What's wrong with this picture! I'd move to Alaska or Montana or Utah if I could, but I have aging relatives with health problems that live here, so I'm "trapped" for the time being.

How much time do you think we have before full-scale race war breaks out?

GW