I’m glad you feel so strongly and are willing to share your opinion. You may think I like censorship, but you are exactly incorrect. I don’t believe we should be censoring opinions. Pornography yes, opinions no. Opinions are what have made America such an exciting and wonderful place to live.

I did not mean to lump all African Americans into one category. I know that there are many African Americans that have become very successful and feel the same way I do about working hard to gain success. Oprah is obviously one of those people. So is Colin Powell, Condaleeza Rice, and many others.

However, if you look at how the African American portion of society voted last night, you’ll see that I’m not the one lumping them all together. They have lumped themselves. Somewhere around 95% of African Americans voted for Barack Obama. Most other demographics were split way more evenly between the two candidates.

My frustration comes from how I would approach the issue of racism in America. If I want something to go away, I ignore it. I stop dwelling on it. Eventually it leaves. I see the black leadership doing exactly the opposite. They dwell on it. They thrive on it. It makes them angry. It heats them up. They keep the idea of it alive by dwelling on it so much.

If I want my child to succeed, the last thing I’m going to do is dwell on the reasons why they won’t.

You’re right. It’s been only 40 years or so since they’ve been integrated fully into society. They are doing okay. But I want to see them thrive. I believe they have it in them to do so. They are humans and they are Americans, as am I. Their potential is for greatness, but for some reason they embrace mediocre results. If they truly believed they could achieve better, then they would not stop until they did. America does not keep anyone from succeeding who never gives up.

My hope for America is that we stop caring about the color of our skin and start caring about the solutions to our problems. Poverty may be more concentrated among certain demographics, but the solution to poverty is the same whether you are white, black, asian, mexican, or whatever.

As for my great grandfather, he was not a slave owner. Nor was his great grandfather. Even if he was, is it my fault that he had slaves? Is it anyone’s fault today that slaves existed in America? If we’re going to blame our ancestors, maybe we should blame the ancestors of the blacks themselves. After all, most of the slaves were originally sold by Africans first, Europeans second, and Americans third.

And I’ll bet you are so excited that prop 8 passed! Don’t worry, it won’t last long, equal rights always prevail…

I’ll expect you to delete this, people like you LOVE censorship!

Have a good day! Glad we can all share the right to politcal opinion!