Submitted to Town Hall December 10, 2014


Aren't the riots getting old and why are things that most of us thought were behind us a while ago, now front-line issues. To be honest, in general, I like blacks as much as whites. Who really cares about color? I do hate reprobates, scum, n'ere do wells and those who think just because they are upset, they have a right to hurt somebody. I do not care what color anybody is.

My favorite potential presidential candidates right now are Alan Keyes, who has a better gift of speech than the President, and Dr. Ben Carson, who is one of America's heroes, whose soft tone is engaging and obviously filled with the truth. Listen to both of them when you can and it does not matter their skin color. They are both the real deal. They love America, even though their father was nothing more than a brewery worker supporting their lives in nothing more than what most would call a shack on High Street in Wilkes-Barre by today's standards. Whoops, that was my life...

Yet, these two black heroes had to endure similar toughness in their lives. I did not know my family was under the poverty line when I was in grade school until I read one of those monthly reader things in an off-period in grade school. We ate well, and I had eaten well enough to become a chubby kid. I never thought I was a victim of anything. We were actually well below the poverty line but my dad never talked about it. I am so glad that I never bought into that crap. My father told me that it was me that would make a difference in my life and depression was a luxury I could not afford. Good men like Ambassador Alan Keyes and Dr. Ben Carson, the first surgeon to separate twins joined at the head at Johns Hopkins University did not buy into that crap either. While too many are saying no to America, I am glad that you and I and most of my other friends say yes! Now if only we had an honest press to tell the world how it really is....

I do not agree with Pat Buchanan on everything but I think he is a good man. His Essay called the White Side got him fired from CNN. All of America, black and white, should be outraged at that. Buchanan knows how to write for sure and his little essay is proof of that. Nobody (95% plus at least) wants there to be strife between the genders, the races, the sexual orientations etc. The fact is that there are people who gain when such agitation and riot-like behavior exists. I wish I knew why the first post racial president chooses sides. He can solve it all if he chooses to-- just tell whites and blacks alike that not everything in life begins with R. Even though as a Democrat I vote conservative, I admit that I hoped that by white America voting a professed black man into the presidency, we could finally say the race crap was over. Nobody can deny that whites elected this black President. How could that not mean something for America? Yet, the race baiters who gain from strife would be out of business if there were a real solution--even though there was. Unfortunately, these agitators and haters of America are all back in business and business is getting better.