I call a racist a racist regardless of thier color. I once got into a discussion with a black co-worker about the Bakki (SP) case and reverse discrimination, and he told me that there could be no reverse discrimination until the white man had gone through 2oo years of slavery and discrimination. That was when I realized that there IS no winning. I have yet to meet ANYONE who's old enough to have been enslaved and discriminated against for 200 years. If we are going to bring up what our granddaddys did, Mine was born and raised in Maine (a free state) went to California for the gold rush, and joined the Union army!) My family never owned any slaves. White people came over here (many of them) as indentured servants (like a contract slave). So it's not like it's ALL one way! Greeks, Hebrews and others spent THOUSANDS of years as slaves. Let's build a bridge and get over it! Stop trying to make ME attone for the sins of somebody elses ancestors! Is there racism and discrimination today against blacks, hispanics, and orientals? YES! Is there prejudice from some in those groups against whites and the other groups? YES! The best thing we can do about it is identify ignorance for what it is, and make sure that we teach our children that it IS ignorance, and then not give the morons glorying in thier own ignorance too much of an audience, lest they take encouragement from it!
