White People Are Losing Their Minds In The Obama Era.

I agree, and I never said I understood it just that I knew what it meant. I think they may have gotten it from the fact that Whites can trace their origins to the Caucasus. Of course, so can many other races like the Turks and Indians (whose ancestry are the Aryan tribes, anyways), so why only Whites I don't know.

Sorry, double post. Ignore this 1.

that is ok. It has come out that you like to rearange words replaceing some with others and qwhen you have almost completely changed what the original statement meant you start posting your version over and over . I want to take back my requisit for you to explane anything .

I have not heard a single person complain about the skin color of our president. I've heard plenty of people who detest the stimulus package, hate the his position on gun control, and fear a socialization of america's economy. But nothing about his race.

Secondly, every American has the opportunity to do anything with their lives that they want. That is not to say that everyone has the same access, ie it will be harder for some people than others. Not because of their race but rather because of the culture they are raised in.

A very good article written on the power of education is "On the Uses of A Liberal Education: 2. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor" (google search the title for the full article).

The author of the article provided free education to very poor people from inner cities. One of his students told him one day that she was being told by people she know that it "wasn't no use goin' to school because the white man wouldn't let you up no matter what" (Shorris, 9). Don't try, the white man won't let you succeed. Who was trying to prevent that woman's success, the 'white man' or her 'friends' telling her to give up. I can not tell you if any one person that tries will succeed or fail but I can guarantee that any person that does not try will not succeed.

So after this free education how did those who ignored the negative attitude of their friends and neighbors do?

"A year after graduation, ten of the first sixteen Clemente Course graduates were attending four-year colleges or going to nursing school; four of them had received full scholarships to Bard College. The other graduates were attending community college or working full time. Except for one: she had been fired from her job in a fast-food restaurant for trying to start a union" (Shorris, 13).

They didn't learn reading, writing, nor arithmetic in this course. They didn't learn how to repair cars or design buildings. They learned 'useless' information; symbolic logic, poetry, art history, american history through documents (such as the Magna Carta), and philosophy. Nothing that they learned would be inaccessible to anyone able to get into a library.

Would it be harder for a student from the inner city where this knowledge is not valued nor taught to learn and appreciate this knowledge. Yes. But no one is stopping you but yourself, no one can make you succeed except yourself. You have to earn your place in the world. Racism is an excuse for failure, not a reason. You can succeed, believe it and work for it and you have a chance. Choose to ignore it and you will fail and it doesn't matter one iota what I or anyone else does for you, you will fail.

Well, all humans can trace their ancestry to Africa. Shouldn't everyone be referred to as Africans?

To me an African is someone who is from Africa. My sister in law is from kenya, I would call her African. One of my oldest brothers friend who was born and raised in America and happens to have black skin, him I'd call American. We are all, after all, children of Eve (biblical or some original human woman descended from monkeys take your pick).

Well, according to the Bible not all humans are descended from Adam and Eve, only God's chosen people the Jews are. So we certainly aren't all children of Eve in the Biblical sense. However, there is overwhelming fossil and archaeological evidence to suggest that the first modern humans appeared in North-East Africa, and were indeed descended from monkeys or monkey-like mammals.

Not that I want to get into a debate on the creation story, but there are two interpretations possible of the creation of man in the Bible... I won't go into details on that.

However, I might say that we're all children of Noah then Be that as it may my point was simply that we are all human, all essentially the same so it doesn't really matter if I'm labeled in some subcategory, whether that be racial, economic class, or by high school cliche.

A good point . We need to see only humanity when we look at another , then perhaps some of the other prejudices will begin to fade away.

Prejudices will never fade away, so a long as there are 2 people of different races alive.

Your statement seems to imply that you believe that racism is inherent to humanity. That racism is some 'original sin' that every child is born with. That is non-sense. As with everything else that we ever think it is a mental construct. It is only unbeatable if we believe it to be so.