As an American, I can no longer wade in silence over the ever-growing prejudice that continues to infect and invade my home. As a fourth generation American of European ancestry, I was raised with a steadfast intolerance toward bigotry and taught to take a stand against plagues of narrow-mindedness. I was taught to love thy neighbor without preconception and without regard to race, color or creed. I was educated about the wretched history of mankind’s past toward their brethren and learned to not only be respectful toward my brothers and sisters, but to embrace them, love them and to offer my hand to those in need. And again, I stress to you that I was taught that race, color or creed is not only non-existent, but an absolute irrelevance.
   Prejudice, whether perpetrated through exclusion or violence is prejudice nonetheless. Segregation of any one group of race, color or creed while enhancing the life of another group of the any one of those denominations is prejudice nevertheless. Even if an oppressed group as documented within the annals of history, or a group deemed a minority in modern day forms an allegiance unto itself to benefit only itself, while segregating all others is discrimination.
   The honored greats of our past who worked relentlessly and succeeded in liberating the blacks from the horrific deeds of whites would be appalled to learn that their efforts died within that very same liberation. It is absolutely shocking to see that bigoted alliances are still being formed to this day, that segregate themselves by the color of their skin. I, for one, am absolutely disgusted by the sheer volume of organizations I have discovered that blatantly defy the laws of equality. Moreover, I am absolutely mortified to have to call these same people my brothers and my sisters – those who blatantly and without shame, deny me. 
   Could this be deemed reverse discrimination? Or, should this be considered some sort of payback? Should there be a United Caucasian College Fund? A Caucasian Business Directory? Caucasian Business Professionals Support Group? How about networking for Caucasian Female Professionals? Or, how about Caucasian Only Comedy Show? Caucasian News? Caucasian Music Awards? The list just goes on and on, however, I do not feel the need to elaborate any further here. With a little bit of intelligence, I am sure you catch my drift. When is the last time you did a Google search? Try it. Type in anything and see what comes up. You might try, “black business pages” for instance. See what you get. Very interesting, indeed.
   I want to hear from those of you who have started a “blacks only group,” those of you who support “blacks only” groups and from those of you who have an opinion on the subject of continued prejudice in America.
   I think it is high time to put an end to this once and for all, what do you think?

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