Booker T Washington once said,

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some the the people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

That is true today of the debate of racism and affirmative action. We have moved from a time when racism was exhibited and supported by government. Today we find ourselves in a society in which many people accept people of all kinds. Today we find that we have a racism that is institutional. Because African Americans do not do as well as Caucasians, it must be racism at work. It is not deliberate, but it exists in the very system.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are very good at blaming racism on the white race and Republicans, yet never take the time to speak out against the practices of their own race that are destructive to themselves. They cry out that more African Americans live below the poverty line than whites, yet we never hear them hold their own race accountable when 70% of their children live in single-parent homes compared to the 33% of whites. You can make the argument that there is a direct relationship between poverty and single-parent homes.

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. Today crying racism remains part of the problem. As long as the black leadership continues to support affirmative action, racism will remain a problem. It breeds in the hearts of those that are already racist, and only adds fuel to their fire.

Does racism still exist in this country, yes. Only time will change the hearts of those who still hold this view. But today under the guise of affirmative action, the government and its supporters own continue to prove their misguided belief that minorities are somehow inferior.

dmk