I feel disregarded, unimportant and an overall bias against me since I am a white man in the 21st century. I'm carrying quite the load, you know, being responsible for the inability for blacks and women to integrate successfully in the workplace. Not to mention I am blamed for slavery, albeit those who do so tend to be extremely uneductated. But it doesn't matter, because the educated ones still go on and on about how the white man owes the black man something and they manipulate public emotion to get what they want in the form of yet another separatist activist group that only serves to drive men away from each other in the very name of the problem in the first place; difference in color.

I also live in a city where it's okay for blacks to call each other the most derogatory, racist name ever created, and it's become okay for them to identify me by the color of my skin. Where is my advancement group?

Alonzo... seriously?

When you sent me that last email, it made me think real hard. However, it seems that you just glamored me with your great writing because once again, I feel the same way because of the same reasons.

And to top it off, the goal is EQUALITY, right?

If the NAACP wants to be treated as equal, then I would imagine at the very foundation of their beliefs, those who wish to get the charter back up and going aren't going to take the handout offered by the city to waive the fees... right?

Tell me this group is going to cowboy up and pay what they owe. Tell me this group can accept responsibility that comes with being in a club by paying their own bills.

Or are they just looking for every single handout they can get? Or maybe, just somehow it's the city's fault that the group failed to maintain interest and somehow the city owes blacks and will repay them in the form of waiving charter fees?

Humor me - you seriously think that if two candidates for a job are completely equal in every way except one is black and the other is white - that job should go to the black man simply because he is black and boosts that company's diversity numbers?

And you don't see discrimination there?

What if it was a black man and white woman? Hell, black men were able to vote before women (by 50 years), so I guess the white woman deserves that job, right?

For the record, I've NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS seen 2 candidates for anything completely equal - so why are we creating rules assuming that goes on every day? And creating guidelines on how to handle that situation (by GIVING the job to blacks).

If you want something, earn it. You get turned down for a house? Take a look at yourself and the baggage you're carrying. Turned down for a job? Check your resume and work history.

I'm so sick of this s&*%.

My mistake, it wouldn't be the city of St. Joseph to waive the charter fees (handouts, whatever you want to call them).

Like I've said several times...racism is alive and doing well in this country. Thanks for proving it yet again Alonzo.

namajnin: Does that include racist remarks made against white people also????

Why was my comment removed?

Censorship, Mr. Weston.

What blows my mind even more...

Is that blacks are encouraging the use of, "colored people" by participation in this very organization.

Maybe we should refer to blacks as "coloreds?"

Jeez.

I'd like to know the specifics of Mr. Hawkins failed trucking business.

Dollars to doughnuts it's just a case of playing the race card when he couldn't maintain operating a business.

I'll probably never know, and I'm only speculating. But I sure would be interested to hear the specifics.

The next time you print a story with interviewees claiming racism, maybe dig a bit and prove or disprove it or at least give us some facts.

Not, "they forced me out 'cause I'm black" with nothing to back it up.

Sounds like to me the NAACP is in it for the money -

Not the people.....

I want to know why my comment was removed too?? namajnin posted the samething as me and his stayed.

It's the man trying to hold me back!!

And my comment was offensive HOW?! Oh, to the beloved News-Press staff... whatever. Remove this one too, losers.

Inconsistent censorship...interesting.

i'm all about equality, but i feel the race card is played WAY too much these days. if an american wants something (any color american) bad enough, it can be had or acheived. it's hard for everyone, and i'm tired of racism being blamed on whites as an entirety. we are not all guilty, i've never told a racist joke (not just cause its wrong, my mother would kill me) i've never used the n word. i've never discriminated against someone because of their ethnicity. (religion maybe, just because i think most religious folks have it all wrong, but never race.)

so, why is it MY FAULT? why did my mother get passed over for a job she was more qualified for than an african american candidate. (for the record, it crossed our mind that she should play the race card...she's jewish) why do i have to tiptoe around when some african americans throw the n word around and can call me a honkey? what did i do?