Editor's Note: As the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People prepares to celebrate its Centennial in New York, the city of its birth, I’m confident that we as a nation have turned an important corner on the long road toward racial and economic equality for all Americans. Now, insistent questions have arisen about the relevancy of our mission: Haven’t we entered a “post-racial” era in America, with the election of President Obama?
- Nigel: I think that when the president comes back from his trip he should go for a swim and you know where he should go, WHAT A STATEMENT THAT WOULD MAKE! MAKE IT HAPPEN GUYS
- Warren: I understand the outcry over the situation with the black kids trying to go to the swim club in Pennsylvania and think that it’s wrong. But, if the black community, NAACP and others truly want to help the overall situation then they should stop stoking the division by allowing things such as Indiana’s “Black Expo” to continue! Is it any wonder that whites don’t want to listen to the black outcry about discrimination when the black community turns right around and holds such a racist festival? Fair is fair. We’re all supposed to be Americans here, not white Americans or African Americans, just Americans!
- Michael : Discrimination started declining along time before president Obama took office but people need to realize that different races have different ways of expressing themselves this can be seen in church choirs for instance put a white church choir in a black church and a black choir in a white church the surroundings would be discontent the joining of two different races in social events is a total different environment then a work place because the agenda is coordinated with mutual feelings my point is that its going to take time to join two totally different souls .
House Minority Leader John Boehner is a fierce critic of the stimulus. He recently posted a web video featuring a bloodhound named “Ellie Mae” on the hunt for stimulus jobs. The video asks, “Where are the jobs?” As it turns out, he should have released the hounds on his own home turf. We visited Boehner’s Ohio district where we found the Butler County Sheriff got almost a million dollars in stimulus dollars. He’s using the money to hold on to correctional officers he had planned to layoff. If he had lain off those officers, the Sheriff says, he would have been forced to release inmates. It’s his department’s policy to have to maintain a safe ratio of officers to prisoners.
- Larry: Boehner has been bending over backwards lately to get his mug in the paper. He’s such a critic of the current administration and as typical has no solutions of his own to get the economy going. If the Republicans cared about their constituents over the past 8 years the economy wouldn’t be in this condition. Can you see where the stimulus is working yet idiot? Right in your own districts. I’m from Ohio. Pack your bags Boehner. You’re outta here!
- Carolyn: That’s just great! 1 million $ spent out of 787 billion$ I just love it! Mean while just that many people lost their jobs. The dogs do bark Joe! And by the way those were not new JOBS. So far the only ones to get stimulus dollars are a few Execs from AIG. About 30-40 got 165-185 million$. Oh yeah and AIG is asking to payout more millions today. The rich get richer that’s the dog that bark Joe. You cannot tell the people that they don’t see what they see Mr. Biden! I don’t know one single person that the stimulus has helped. I don’t see any evidence around me in my state or city Bridgeport, Ct of any stimulus. I see signs in front of homes bank owned. I see more people at home because they are not working. I see hunger. No food in the food banks. People picking up bottles and cans for a nickel deposit! I see commercials from Jim Himes bragging about enrolling 23,000 children in Medicaid. What about the unemployed uninsured? If you get unemployment you can’t get Medicaid and you can’t afford cobra! Can’t get food stamps! Can’t pay rent or mortgage on $350 a week! The dog does bark! As a matter of fact it’s howling! Where is the STIMULUS?
A Philadelphia-area day care center said Thursday that members of a private swim club made racist comments about the center’s children, and the club then canceled their swimming privileges. The Creative Steps Day Care children — ages kindergarten through seventh grade — went to the Valley Swim Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, on June 29. The day center’s director, Alethea Wright, had contracted to use the club once a week. During their first visit, some children said they heard club members asking why African-American children were there. One of the boys told the Philadelphia Inquirer that a woman at the club said she feared the children “might do something” to her child.
- Amanda: You would think people would look at each other equally. We all have the same blood just different features and color. When will this world be a better place? The Lord needs to come back and claim what is HIS. There are too many ignorant people in this world. The children are innocent they should be able to swim in the facility but they decided to come up with some crap story about not enough space PLEASE YOUR NOT FOOLING ANYONE.
- Tricia: I was appalled at what happened to those kids from the Creative Steps Day Care. It breaks my heart that instead of swimming in the open air they are now stuck swimming in an indoor pool. It was incomprehensible for me that they were exposed to such racism in this day and age. This must not stop here. Something should be done about that swim club.
- Bev: I hope these adults have an opportunity to reflect on their small actions and the affect on these children. Where was the concern, for the complexion of the pool when the green check was accepted? Simply disgusting!!!!