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Dear Larry: What does a parent do? My 10-year-old son is a very active young child who comes from an interracial family.
He recently went on a field trip with his school. A parent witnessed a teacher being abusive toward my son in front of his peers.…Read more.
ETHNICALLY SPEAKING
Dear Larry: I am a young adult librarian, and every year, I take part in a program designed to teach teens leadership skills. One of the classes we stress is how to prevent discrimination.
The class is always a very ethnically diverse group, …Read more.
ETHNICALLY SPEAKING
Dear Larry: I believe that as long as ethnic and cultural groups continue to hyphenate their heritage with American, we will continue to live in a segregated world.
A lot has been done since the '50s to eradicate the separation among groups. However,…Read more.
Ethnically Speaking, October 17
Dear Larry: I am shocked that Rush Limbaugh has been rejected in his attempt to become an owner of a National Football League team. So-called black leaders and a few others told lies about Rush, and the NFL rejected him just because there was …Read more.
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Ethnically Speaking, January 24Dear Larry: Barack Obama is now president of the United States. I know you have disagreed with many of his policy issues. Regardless of how anybody feels, he is still the president and will be in that position for a minimum of four years. If you had to choose the biggest disagreement you have with him, what would you pick? On the flip side, what would you choose as the thing you are looking forward to most in his presidency? — A Faithful Fan Dear Faithful Fan: I am not sure from your letter to whom you are faithful. I will assume you are my faithful fan. My biggest disagreement with the president is with his position on abortion. I am morally opposed to killing children. I do not split hairs trying to determine whether it's a child or a fetus. Regardless of the child's age, it is still a child. The other problem I have with abortion is blacks are aborted at a higher rate than any other group. I do not understand why more black leaders do not speak out against this genocide against blacks. The thing that I have the greatest hope about is the fact that 70 percent of all blacks now think Martin Luther King's dream has been realized. This is an outstanding revelation and gives me great hope that blacks will stop feeling like victims and blaming any failures on skin color. I believe that if the media joined with me in extolling this positive achievement, we would have the possibility of ending this war of the races once and for all. America should stop being timid and find a backbone to speak out against deviant behavior. We need to find the courage to say what is right and what is wrong. We need to declare people who riot as criminals, rappers as uncouth, and men who father children without assuming responsibility as people to be scorned. This social war, which has gone on for 50 years, will be over in a few short years if we merely use the new president as an example of where we are in modern America. It is time to say the days of the old civil rights struggle are over. I pray that President Obama's presence in the White House will serve as a victory symbol in this long struggle. I hope and pray he will not fall prey to those who want to pull him into this imaginary fight. I hope he is smart enough to realize that many black leaders have vested interests in not letting the war end. I look forward to the day when this column no longer will be relevant and people feel the need to say: "Dear Larry, we got your message. Thank you and goodbye." To find out more about Larry G. Meeks and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.
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