TEACHING HATE
I'll say again that most Americans are decent law-abiding citizens who mind their own business, and the ones I have met in my travels around this country are courteous, courteous to you no matter who you are or what your background is. Race simply does not make that much difference to them, and they don't .

To those, let's say, who are Black or Brown or Asican descent, or whatever, just how much discrimination do you really experience, or how often are you slighted because of what you are? For crying out loud, NO MATTER WHERE WE GO IN THIS WORLD, WE'RE GOING TO FIND THE SAME THING IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER.

You're Black? Big deal. In Africa countries where they're all Black they slice people's arms and legs off simply because they're from a different tribe! How many were slaughtered in the Hutu/Tutsui massacres? 700,000 in less than a year! All over Africa this has been going on for fifty years now, millions killed, millions more have starved to death. Considering the inhumanity exhibited between tribes, the last thing in the world I would want to call myself is African-American. In Liberia they show kids on TV, ten years old, out killing local people in the current rebellion. If you research Ida Amin's history, you'll be grateful that you live in a land such as ours, where you're safe from tyranny such as that.

Remember, even in the south before the Civil War, the slaveholders were but a small minority of the White population. In the North, people simply went about their own business and had nothing to do with Slavery. Yet, there are Black people today who distort history, compose songs of hatred towards the Whites, who teach hatred in the schools, who blame the Whites for all their problems.

In one story I mentioned a young man who had his throat slit from ear to ear, and survived, but it was a close call with death. He drove a cab in San Diego, earning money for his college education, but in violatin of company policy he drove two passengers to a section of town he had been told to avoid. There while one passenger held him, the other slit his throat. It was done by a Black man, who robbed him of his earnings that night, less than forty dollars. He has that scar today, visible to anyone who looks in his direction.

But, here's the real point of the story:We visited his family in San Diego a couple of years later, and his father and I went to a local bar for a quiet talk and a beer. A Black man sat down alongside of him. Somehow the three of us got into a conversation and I expected the young man's father to get upset, but he didn't. He was as courteous to that man as he could be! He did not hold him racially guilty of the murderous attempt on his son's life, nor the weeks the young man was in a coma!

The actions of one man of color had nothing whatsoever to do with another man of that color. Neither do the actions of any White person today have a single thing to do with the actions of White slave holders over 150 years ago.

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