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Making Money $150 An Hour

I listened to your thoughts on the election (http://www.wbhm.org/News/2008/crossingthedivide.html) and on most parts agree with your thoughts. I grew up in Chicago and sometimes I think that I grew up in a world of amazement. We didn’t see poverty and I was raised Catholic (though I am not now). And most of my entire neighborhood went to public school, but we went to private school. Yet, we all still had the same beliefs and were cut from the same cloth. But, when I listen to your depiction of your Black neighbors, it seems that they were less fortune than your family. I tend to believe the opposite. I believe most African Americans / Blacks (whatever you call us) believe as I do.

We believe in God, (some of us don’t stay on the road – NOT just Blacks) we speak of a better place, we believe in fairness and working. We believe in love and being faithful. We are honorable people; that’s why you hear so much about someone disrespecting someone else. When you live in a world when someone can hire their friend and she / he doesn’t have your credentials, or someone was pulled over being in a wrong neighborhood, then that can jade a person’s perspective. NOW, I am far from being a person to give excuses, but my argument to the world is one should not put a race in a box. All Black people aren’t saved and don’t have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, all Black people aren’t Democrats, all Black people have been in or lived in a ghetto, all or most Black people aren’t on some sort of governmental aid.

Of course, I know you of all people know this. I write this to your audience that thinks that you downed your people. I don’t believe that was your goal. I received this email to listen to your blog / thoughts from a workplace that Black folks and other people aren’t the norm in workers. I hope that the people who listened didn’t hear half of what you said.