This resonates with me: Character, not color, counts the most.

I am lucky. Had I grown up in Mississippi instead of Ohio, my father would have been a Klucker. He was a Klucker in all but name. But then in Ohio we knew somebody who knew somebody who knew a black person. Out of a class of 200 in my high school, I doubt we had more than 5 black kids. I moved to my last home in Ohio in 1972 and got to know a black kid named Bernard in 6th grade. I liked him, but still felt uneasy toward him because of his skin color. I’m glad I got over it.

I am lucky that the Klucker mentality of both of my parents never took hold in me, because it would have been beaten out of me during my time in the Navy. Today, living in Memphis, Tennessee, about 90% of the people I interact with are black. If I had any racist underpinnings, I would be SOL in my job.

I have done my best to take Dr King’s words to heart in my dealings with other people, and they have served me well. Which is why I like this article. It talks about how blacks are still fighting the battles of the 60′s when they were won way back then.

Liberals have done much to destroy the black population, all through the bigotry of low expectations. All of that has led to the massive degradation of the condition of this minorities condition.

Yes, past racial injustices helped create these conditions and a litany of other injustices – racial profiling, predatory mortgage lending and assaults on affirmative action – endures. But rather than focus on what others have done to undermine black culture, we would be better served to remember the charge Martin Luther King Jr. issued: to live with dignity and discipline, to fight physical force with soul force. We can begin by refusing to allow those guilty of bad behavior – the brother hustling crack, the neglectful parent who offers a child Timberlands instead of time, the prodigal couple who chooses bankruptcy over modest living and the famous athlete accused of rape – to make these issues about the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.

Amen.

This article, ‘Stupid mistake’ leads to deportation of Colombian here since age 2, weeps over this guy who royally screwed up his life.

He had the chance to become a citizen (which his siblings did). He had a chance to keep his nose clean (he didn’t). He decided to deal drugs. To pay for his crime, he will be deported to a country where he does not speak the language and he has nobody to support him or go to. Which is a fitting punishment to me. Too bad we can’t do it to the rest of our criminals.

What really galls me is the weepiness this article has for this criminal. His failings have led him to his fate, as it should. But to hear about everybody trying to prevent his deportation gets my dander up. He, like everybody, should think about the consequences of their actions before they act on them. That way you have a chance to put on a life jacket before you jump out of the boat.

I am of the belief that violent, repeat criminals should not walk the streets. Neither should they be housed and fed, given TV and porn, receive top-notch health care and such on our dime. Drop them off on an island where they can do harm only to others of their own kind.

Bye-Bye Mr. Rafael Jaramillo.

It seems some Arab news outlets have been proclaiming that we captured Osama bin Laden some time ago and are waiting to spring an October surprise on the American public. U.S., Pakistan Deny Bin Laden Was Captured.

If we do have him, he remains a valuable source of control and intelligence as long as his capture is not made public. Only at the end of his usefulness will his capture be announced. We may have him, we may not, I don’t know, I’m not privy to that kind of information.

But I hope so.