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RACE - AMERICA'S GREATEST ILLNESS

By Ms. J - Jul 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm EDT

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I must admit that I am a little angry and disappointed that Senator Barack Obama appears to appese the majority by not dealing with this race issue head-on. By the hand of the mighty Creator he is who he is regardless of skin color. Here today in 2008, I still cannot wear my hair natural or prefer to cover in clothes of color without being judged negatively because I'm Black. I have worked for more than forty years. Hell, when I started at 17 years of age, white women were going to college to find husbands, so they would not have to work. Yet when they and other minorities joined the workforce, their pay was elevated above my years of experience because of color. Every day I work in a county government office where the hieraracy is white is right, hispanic is in as long as they pretend that Blacks are invisible or they serve as overseer and racial discrimination is not allowed to be talked about, yet is practiced in everything from work assignments to pay and benefits. Having become homeless this year as a result of cancer and the cost of recovery, I'm told in Orlando Florida that I don't deserve work or a job with benefits because I'm black, I'm over experienced, too old (50) and must submit to drug tests and credit checks, all stumbling blocks for Blacks more so than others, and that I don't want to work for my living. I am a wage slave and haven't received more than a twenty five cent a hour raise over each of the last ten years and I'm told that my misfortune of housing costs over half of my income and food and healthcare are inaccessible because I am black. I am sick of everyone who deny the impact that racism in America has had on the Black male and female, how systems were and are still in place to corrupt the Black family, prevent the accumulation of wealth by lack of access to loans and other tools including inherited wealth and education and I would challenge any American of immigrant origin to start with nothing over and over again while fighting the unjust and unequal systems Blacks live with every day. I hope the day and leadership comes when people like Barack Obama don't have to whitewash their presence to gain acceptance. After all, regardless, there will be a reality check and like it or not Black is a nondescription of who he has become and is. Let's forget color and strive to equal the playing field so all may reach their potential and are free to speak from their full pool of experiences.

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