by Volecia Plafcan

Created on: June 15, 2008

It just amazes me that people just harp and harp on racism. I think if it were left alone for a decade or so, a big majority of it would evaporate into thin air.

Racism to me is hate. That is like you saying, "you are better than me and I don't deserve the good things in life."

Maybe, you dress better than me, drive a better car than me and have better education than I do but that doesn't mean you are better than me. But, I DO understand that you probably worked for the things that you are wearing and driving and you were the only one to take those classes to get that education.

People just won't let go!

The black people have come a long way in the past few years, along with the white, yellow, red, or whatever other color is involved. Has anyone ever said, "The white people have come a long way?" I firmly believe that we have all come a long way in the past few years and it is the entire country - not just a few people and different colors.

Anymore, any public figure does not have the right of speech. What is said is taken and twisted and twisted so that it is suited to the occasion, especially if reference is made concerning the old die hard segregationists.

Slavery was a horrible thing for this country. The black people have that in their history and the white have it in their history as their masters. I am glad I was neither and I cannot find slavery in any of my genealogy. I am white and I saw my grandfather working with the black people he knew and treated with respect and we were taught to show that same respect. What work they did for him, they were paid.

My great grandfather gave his much larger house to some black people he had been friends with and had helped him through the years. Their family had become so big, and my great grandfathers' nine children had become adults and moved out. He and my great grandmother built a smaller house and moved into it. Some of the black people still live on the land and whenever I pass, I always stop to say hello to the grandchildren.

I did not attend school with black children - even graduated with an all white class but when I check out the yearbooks at the school, now, the blacks are pictured in some of the most recent ones. It didn't bother me other than it just seemed strange.

If ever a race should be hollering 'racism' - I think it should be the American Indian Tribes

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