[San Jacinto]

Obviously, I did not say that all Black children are ridiculed by their peers when they strive to attain the virtues which create success in the society at large, but it is clear that far too many do receive negative feed back for simply showing academic promise. Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, among others, have pointed this out.

"Jesse Jackson ethics" seem to prevail. This boils down to "Get what you can from the government because it owes you. Don't bother to try and succeed through personal initiative, work and ability, because Ole' Whitey just gonna hold you down anyway."

Success stories like Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas (all Republicans, by the way) and untold numbers of others, are all the more impressive because of what they have overcome. It seems to me that residual Racism from a "White Power Structure" is less a problem today than the more insidious Jesse Jackson-type Racism that seeks to keep folks on the Federal Plantation to serve as a political power base for the crooks who run the Democrat Party-Civil Rights Leaders coalition.

I say more power to every single American who seeks success through working hard and playing fair. I say a pox on those who insist on relying on some sort of hyphenated name tag to try and get special status.

[mafree]

It seems to me that residual Racism from a "White Power Structure" is less a problem today than the more insidious Jesse Jackson-type Racism that seeks to keep folks on the Federal Plantation to serve as a political power base for the crooks who run the Democrat Party-Civil Rights Leaders coalition.

Both kinds of racism are a problem- the former was just in place longer.

I say more power to every single American who seeks success through working hard and playing fair. I say a pox on those who insist on relying on some sort of hyphenated name tag to try and get special status.

I agree, and a pox on those who try to deny people what is rightfully theirs because of skin color too.