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I'm really, really tired of the racism in our nation. When I was in elementary school and integration was in its infancy (yes, I'm old), there were two black kids that started going to our school. One girl and one boy.
The boy's name was Ronald Clark. He would come by my house on the way to school and we would walk together. I didn't see black and white. I saw a person that was friendly and we just did the usual kid stuff every day.
It's the parents, grandparents and great grandparents that perpetuate this ridiculous racism. I grew up in East Texas. I remember "whites only" signs at the courthouse water fountains.
Even as a third grader, I believed it wrong.
All this animosity on this board concerning Obama's race is not the issue we are facing. Asian, hispanic, middle eastern, white, black, bi-racial, makes no difference to me as far as the race of the person. It's the influence of the person's associations, character, upbringing and beliefs that make the difference in my mind. I didn't vote for Dubya in 2000 and 2004. I didn't vote for Obama in this election. It wasn't about race or party affiliation.
We will just have to wait and see how all this unfolds over the next four years at the very least.
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I was raised to achieve on my own. Very little was given to me as I was growing up unlike the youth of today including my own.
My father was one of ten kids living on a cotton farm when growing up. He had his cotton sack and would have to pick a row of cotton several hundred yards before his daddy would give them a drink of water. He joined the army during WWII, got out and went to college at Texas A&M and graduated in three years.
Nothing was given to him. He worked and earned.
On my mother's side, her brothers would work at a dairy before and after school and make enough to feed the family. She would always be unrolling their jeans pants legs and scrubbing them on a washboard to get the dried milk off. She, her sister and her mother along with the three youngest boys who were toddlers would bathe in a pond. They had no indoor plumbing, just an outhouse. My mother's father didn't work. He just stayed drunk and the kids simply had to raise themselves basically.
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If you've read this far, you may be asking yourself why was this posted?
Simply put, I believe that you reap what you sow. If you want to have a good life, a decent home and neighborhood and enough money to at least support yourself if not a family, then you have to work hard for it.
No one is "entitled" to anything on this earth regardless of your race or family tree. You have to do the right things, get an education and work hard. No one owes you a living regardless of your race, your religion and on and on.
We as a nation are in a precarious position on many fronts.
I don't care what "race" our president is. I do care about the beliefs and associations our president has had in the past and now. Those associations with certain peoples and ideologies definitely influence the direction that person will take us as a nation.
The boy's name was Ronald Clark. He would come by my house on the way to school and we would walk together. I didn't see black and white. I saw a person that was friendly and we just did the usual kid stuff every day.
It's the parents, grandparents and great grandparents that perpetuate this ridiculous racism. I grew up in East Texas. I remember "whites only" signs at the courthouse water fountains.
Even as a third grader, I believed it wrong.
All this animosity on this board concerning Obama's race is not the issue we are facing. Asian, hispanic, middle eastern, white, black, bi-racial, makes no difference to me as far as the race of the person. It's the influence of the person's associations, character, upbringing and beliefs that make the difference in my mind. I didn't vote for Dubya in 2000 and 2004. I didn't vote for Obama in this election. It wasn't about race or party affiliation.
We will just have to wait and see how all this unfolds over the next four years at the very least.
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I was raised to achieve on my own. Very little was given to me as I was growing up unlike the youth of today including my own.
My father was one of ten kids living on a cotton farm when growing up. He had his cotton sack and would have to pick a row of cotton several hundred yards before his daddy would give them a drink of water. He joined the army during WWII, got out and went to college at Texas A&M and graduated in three years.
Nothing was given to him. He worked and earned.
On my mother's side, her brothers would work at a dairy before and after school and make enough to feed the family. She would always be unrolling their jeans pants legs and scrubbing them on a washboard to get the dried milk off. She, her sister and her mother along with the three youngest boys who were toddlers would bathe in a pond. They had no indoor plumbing, just an outhouse. My mother's father didn't work. He just stayed drunk and the kids simply had to raise themselves basically.
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If you've read this far, you may be asking yourself why was this posted?
Simply put, I believe that you reap what you sow. If you want to have a good life, a decent home and neighborhood and enough money to at least support yourself if not a family, then you have to work hard for it.
No one is "entitled" to anything on this earth regardless of your race or family tree. You have to do the right things, get an education and work hard. No one owes you a living regardless of your race, your religion and on and on.
We as a nation are in a precarious position on many fronts.
I don't care what "race" our president is. I do care about the beliefs and associations our president has had in the past and now. Those associations with certain peoples and ideologies definitely influence the direction that person will take us as a nation.
