Blessings go to all persons on this thread who have let me that racialist assaults perpetrated against a G_d believing human being do not merit attention, let along empathy. Blessings to all members of the Drudge community.

This has been a fascinating thread. Repeatedly the real-life experiences of blacks has been ignored (eg. Shannon Reeves), in favor of generalities to more often than not cast persons of African inheritance in a poor light. Many years ago, the Dred Scott decision said that the words and actions of any person of African inheritance could be utterly disregarded. The legacy of unfairness remains today, for poor judicial decisions can be overturned, new laws can be enacted but personal sentiments are heavily influenced by cultural legacy. Ralph Ellison wrote the "Invisible Man". Sojorner Truth allegedly said "Ain't I a Woman". I thank God for their eye-opening witness of life in the United States. In the same vein, I thank God for the candor of all the writers in this thread who have, by and large, let me see that real experiences and aspiration of United States citizens of African inheritance is considered unimportant. By the way, I share many Republican sentiments and maintain membership in the Heritage Foundation. I maintain registration as a Democrat and have been elected to be an Election Judge, because I seek to minimize the interpersonal violence that I encounter as an independent, accountable, self-actualizing humanist woman.

Shannon Reeves - I want to validate your experiences. You wrote:

"When I travel to speak at Republican conferences and events around the country, wandering through hotels, convention centers and social clubs, as I approach the rooms where I'm scheduled to speak, I am often told by Republicans that I must be in the wrong place. While boarding a shuttle bus to a national convention a few years ago, an attendee who was already on the bus introduced himself to another white guest who was boarding, took one look at me and, in an attempt to be helpful, told me I was on the wrong bus. As a Bush delegate at the 2000 convention in Philadelphia, I proudly wore my delegate's badge and RNC lapel pin as I worked the convention. Regardless of the fact that I was obviously a delegate prominently displaying my credentials, no less than six times did white delegates dismissively tell me to fetch them a taxi or carry their luggage.

Imagine how our Republican women would have felt if they had been mistaken for hotel maids. These people didn't see that I wasn't wearing a uniform; all they saw was a black face and they made an assumption."

This reality is indeed America. Those who say racism is a thing of the past do not have a clue. I am a Magna cum Laude graduate of Yale. I cannot enumerate the times that others have approached me using monosyllable words as if that is all that I can understand. I have had my skin touched and my hair pulled (I suppose to see if it was real) when it reached my waist. When wearing business attire while traveling professionally, I have been approached and openly propositioned as if my profession was that of a sex provider rather than that of a manufacturing manager for Procter and Gamble. By the way, racism is not the exclusive domain of people of European descent. On the contrary, these behavioral aberrations are human deviations caused by the desire of rapacious persons (whatever their age and sex) to unfairly hold on to benefits not earned.

Que todo el mundo sobreviva segun las bendiciones del espiritu.