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Return to the Article February 22, 2009Hating WhiteyBy Selwyn Duke While many believe that prejudice has diminished over time, it's not really true.  Prejudice is much like the wind: Its direction changes, and the sheltered and well-situated may not sense it, but it's always blowing on some people somewhere.  Put literally, every age has its fashionable biases -- and unfashionable people. This was obvious during the presidential inauguration benediction, given by the Reverend Joseph Lowery.  While making a supplication to the Lord, he made the following anachronistic plea: ". . . help us work for that day when black...

Recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with "racial harassment" for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book.  Not surprisingly, the article evoked a great response, including emails from those with their own stories to tell about persecution inspired by what I will call caucaphobia.  A couple of these accounts are so compelling -- compared to one even Sampson's problems pale -- I've decided to publish them in this piece (both readers allowed me to use their names; their correspondence has been edited for punctuation, grammar and style).  These are the stories the...