Thanks for Dropping By

I read an article yesterday that showed me exactly how far this country has come since the Emancipation Proclamation. A black woman was fired and is suing her former bosses for harassment.

This seems like an article that could have been written in the 1850's, the problem is this happened over the past three years. She was fired in 2007.

The worst part is that regular people get to comment on the article. I hope you are as outraged as I am when you read these comments (below). As you read these comments, and if you like, there are 400+ just like them, think about this hatred that is still among us. think about how this country will actually show their true colors as this election comes closer to election day.

People like these commentors are voters. People like these commentors are full of hatred for anything that is not like them. People like these commentors will never elect a black president, even if he had a white grandmother. These commentors would not vote for a woman either.

I want to believe that we have changed in the past 150 years, the truth is that we, as a country, were still separated as "whites and coloreds" in our recent history. Rosa Parks lived in my time. She lived in our time. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived before my time- I wish I could have heard him speak.

My father tells a story of when he was a college student in the 60's. He grew up in Pennsylvalnia and he travelled to the south with a fraternity buddy of his. He remembers walking down a street when he saw a black man walking towards them. He watched as the black man crossed the street in front of them and continued to walk towards them and as they passed each other, the black man crossed back to continue walking on the same sidewalk. My dad believes that the black man was not allowed to walk on the same sidewalk as a white man.

This wasn't a story out of a history book that I had to memorize. This wasn't some foreign place on a map that I hadn't heard of. This was the country that I live in, that we live in. And this is still happening. We should all be outraged.

I am sorry to say that I do not have a solution. I can not even begin to imagine what the solution is. Baseless hatred is not new. Baseless hatred is not even uniquely American.

Well, thanks for dropping by.

The following are excerpts from the article and comments by real people. the real people are identified, if you want to send them a note, just add ("at" aol. com ) to the name.


In the lawsuit, she alleged she was referred to as "Nappy Headed Mo" and "Queen Sheba," by co-workers, was often told she worked on "colored people time," and was frightened by one official who routinely made references to the Ku Klux Klan.

"Does your workout include an urban obstacle course with a flat-screen TV on your back?" she claimed Balash asked her.

When packing up a dark garage at Texas an official told Grant: "Keep smiling and pop your eyes out 'cause we can't see you."

Grant was forced to work outside more often than the white male officials because her supervisors believed she couldn't sunburn because she was black.

While riding in the backseat of her car pool, co-workers told her to duck as they passed race fans. "I don't want to start a riot when these fans see a black woman in my car," she claims one official said.

NASCAR Faces $225 Million Lawsuit - AOL Sports


essied200010400 04:45:13 AM Jun 11 2008
I am sick of black people. Always looking to get what they can for free. They have no pride or self-respect. They are the laziest segment of our population., and the damn government keeps paying them to smoke crack and have kids. I hope I live to see the day when welfare is ended and they all whine and cry about how the white man is "holding them down".

countryhonkiee 04:36:25 AM Jun 11 2008
ANOTHER "AFRICIAN AMERICAN" HA-HA WANTING A FREE RIDE, IMAGINE THATPUT HER ON THE TRACK IN THEMIDDLE OF A RACE

aferdman 02:09:09 AM Jun 11 2008
This lady is full of it. I hope the judge throws the book at here for these ridiculous claims. Everybody is so sue happy these days with these astronomical amounts ($$). My solution is that picks up the tab for her to get prescriptive drugs like RIDALIN and CHILL OUT B****!!!

carljwall 01:40:15 AM Jun 11 2008
just another One of YOU PEOPLE!(blacks) trying to steal every thing the white man has. NASCAR will always be for us Rednecks, so if you don't like our jokes, then go watch tigger Woods play golf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

johnnygoodwrench 12:42:18 AM Jun 11 2008
Again America held hostage by minorities. This **** goes on all the time. Build more boats and send them back.

gigharborman321 12:27:51 AM Jun 11 2008
Here we go again, a black woman wanting free money..whats new ......The said thing about it is this: NASCAR will pay her off !..and we wonder why things are as they are in this country

baddazzdude301 11:13:46 PM Jun 10 2008

ijinnc 10:35:17 PM Jun 10 2008Report This! DOES THE NAME "TAWANA BRAWLEY" RING A BELL? DAMN.........IT SEEMS BEING BORN IN AMERICA MEANS EVERYBODY OUTSIDE A "MINORITY CLASSIFICATION" MEANS YOU'RE A RACIST BIGOT . DAMN , I WISH I HAD BEEN BORN AS A MINORITY........MY CHANCES OF BECOMING RICH AND AN INSTANT MILLIONAIRE BY MAKING ANY KIND OF "RACIST CHARGE" TRUE OR UN-TRUE WOULD BE 1,000,000 TIMES MORE LIKELY.Not to fear.
If Obama gets elected, we will be the minority.

steveusafret 10:42:48 PM Jun 10 2008
Oh-oh....she's black.She'll win her case, regardless of the facts.