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Hi Larry, I love your column. Ditto for the columns of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. Also for the opinions Bill Cosby expresses about black people taking responsibility for problems in their communities, etc. I even wrote in Thomas Sowell as my pick for president one year. Because I have a similar stances to you all and have held them my whole adult life, people call me a racist. (I am white and have a child by a black man) I rarely speak up any more because of how I am looked on. What is wrong with our country? Where is the first amendment? What was wrong with Hillary bringing up Robert Kennedy's campaign into June? More and more we are being told what can and cannot be said. I am also a Christian. Being able to express my beliefs without being made to look intolerant is almost nonexistent, except among Christians, of course. And another thing, why do people mock the idea of America being on a "slippery slope". Can't people see that our culture has gone into the toilet in the last 30-40 years? I keep telling my boss (who actually tolerates some of my opinions and beliefs) our society is turning "vanilla". I don't want my country to be all one flavor! Help! How can I continue to be myself in a society that cares more about political correctness than truth? Karen P.S. I don't think white people necessarily feel guilty about slavery when they express they are sorry it happened. It was a horrible thing. So, yes, I am sorry it happened. I don't feel guilty, but I am sorry. It was wrong.

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Although my family was in Europe at the time of slavery, I too ,as a white person, feel guilty. Not because I or my family had slaves, but because due to my skin color I have most likely received advantages my black friends were denied. I was active in the civil rights movement of the 60's, was present in Washington when my all time hero, Martin Luther King Jr , gave his woderful 'I have a dream' speech: I taught in mixed neighborhoods in New York City and have given much time to explaining and trying to remove prejudice from people's minds. God bless America .. God, make us more deserving of Your blessing! Martha

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Hi Larry, Your column does good in this world. But I would like to tell you that I do not think most whites feel any guilt about slavery. We had nothing to do with it. My ancestors (two of them, one a recent immigrant) volunteered to fight on the Union side of the Civil War. One of them had a life long illness after this experience. Prior to the war, that family had been active participants in the Underground Railroad and helped smuggle blacks to Canada. Many whites have ancestors that came to this country well after slavery. And not all whites were slave owners or agreed with the concept. For blacks to want whites to apologize for slavery is sort of like wanting wanting blacks to apologize something they didn't do. Slavery was terrible. Some of my ancestors escaped suffering the Trail of Tears because they could "pass" as white people. Some of my other ancestors lived thru the Potato Famine, or Gentleman's Genocide, as it was known. I have met people who survived Auschwitz and Cambodia's Killing Fields. Blacks have no monopoly on suffering. White people (or Asians, Mexicans, space people or whomever) are not forcing black people to go on Maury to take DNA tests to determine the paternity of their children. Others are not forcing people to buy or sell or use drugs, join gangs, fail in school, have children out of wedlock, go to prison, fail in life or anything else negative that can happen to them or any person of any color or background. Being an ethnic group other than black does not guarantee success in life, getting a good job, getting an education, a happy life or anything else. Even the successful blacks will tell you they had to work at it. Please ask the blacks to quit calling everyone a racist when something is noted about them that might be unpleasant. Thanks, J