Howard Dean has called the Republican Party the “white” party. Maybe in his part of the country where not many people of color live, but I’ve seen plenty of people of color at our local caucuses.

I have heard more racism from the Democrats, particularly Barack Obama’s campaign, this year than I have ever heard it before. So, who really is the racist party if there is one?

My sitemeter tells me someone is reading, but almost no one makes comments except Sue and me and occasionally Guss and David.

That’s OK, but I have a video I want to show you and would like to hear your opinion on the subject.

When I was still working almost all my co-workers in my work group were African-American. I have heard them use the “N” word describing someone else, and it was not in flattering or affectionate terms.

I’m Indian. I don’t refer to someone who is a friend as an “Injun”. So, why is the argument that African-Americans can use the word indiscriminately valid, but no person of any other race is allowed to use it as an “affectionate” term?

Thankfully, children of parents today (parents who care about how their children are raised) do not use the word. I’m sure my middle school grandchildren have been exposed to the word, but it is not in their vocabularies. (We never used those terms in front of our children. In fact, we never used them at all.)

They don’t mention the color of someone’s skin and have mixed-race parties. If they’re a friend it doesn’t matter the skin color. And I live in the deep South, even though I was raised in the Northeast.

I think the children growing up today are finally going to be the generation that stops the racial divide. I have great hope in them.

Your opinion, please. I promise we don’t bite and we won’t insult you on this blog, but if someone shows racism their comments will be altered or removed.

Why would any adult, regardless of color, put a noose around a small child’s neck to show why nooses are important to their history and because some stupid rednecks put up nooses in Jena?

GRAMBLING, La. — Officials at Grambling State University were meeting Monday after the school newspaper ran photographs of adults at a campus-run elementary school putting a noose around at least one child’s neck.

Kindergarten and first-grade students at Alma J. Brown Elementary School were being taught why nooses are a symbol of racism, an article from the historically black university’s student newspaper said.

The article said the children also were being taught about the “Jena Six” — black high-school students who are accused of beating a white schoolmate. Court proceedings brought about 20,000 to 25,000 people to Jena, about 70 miles from Grambling, for a civil rights march in September.

A press release posted on the Gramblinite’s Web site said three photographs from the event were removed after a staff conference call. Ten others were re-posted to the site Monday after the university’s president ordered the removal of all the photos and the story over the weekend, according to the Gramblinite press release.

I can understand teaching children about racism, but this doesn’t help us to fulfill Martin Luther King’s dream of everyone working and playing together regardless of the color of their skin.

This is an outrage! What do the parents think of their child being put into a noose?

How much fear did they put into this little girl, all to prove a senseless point that could have been discussed and shown in drawings for illustration purposes?
Shame on the lot of them! The whites who did what they did with nooses and the African-Americans who did what they did to this little girl and how many others?