[strandinthewind]

Oh - I agree the current tax system is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. I think people who make under $30,000 a year should pay no Fed Income Tax and then the scale should slide up to where people making $40,000 pay 15% with no deductions. We would be the richest nation in the world if we did that. Well, that and cut out the BS spending. I think many more people would not mind paying 30% of their income if they thought the govt. was not perpetuating poverty with that money, buying $45 screws, paying Halliburton exec bonuses, etc.

But, that has nothing to do with the generations of black people on welfare. It exists - I know because I have seen it with my own peepers. I get that it is not all black people and probably not even most (and other races certainly do it too) - but even one family of any race is too much. That money could be feeding someone who deserves it based on poverty, not race. Yet, many consider me a racist for saying that. How what I am proposing is unfair, I will never know?

As for the strides, when is it enough? When are white people done paying. I say paying because minority contracts are favored even if the cost is more and the workmanship shoddy. How is that fair or paying anyone back or compensating anything?

As for racism, I think it is very difficult to gevern what people think. I think education (public and at home) is the key. I agree that will take many more decades, which I suggest would be lessened if the black community was perceived as far less violent and willing to help themselves. Right or wrong, that is how most people (including many black people I know who got out of the gehetto) perceive ghetto life. Until that changes, all the favorite treatment of minority businesses based on black history is only going to cause resentment. How could it not.