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Sir;... Clearly the goal of national unity will never be met...If the majority is left to give justice and equality to the minority, they will not...If forced to give equality they will resist...If government does itself try to to correct injustice to give people equality of opportunity and income they will be delegitimized...It is difficult in any situation for the people to demand justice when they will not give it...When they justify injustice for others they justify it for themselves... And so we come face to face with ourselves as a people, not better than others anywhere and worse in fact since we are the people who pledge allegience to the one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all... Will God not give justice nor demand justice, and can we only expect justice to be without pain??? How often must we give way to blacks and hispanics who hate us for the injustice they have endured??? How often will we meet Blacks who have never learned to work hard and apply themselves because they have never had an opportunity??? How often will we meet blacks with a grudge against us who have no reason but the injustice they have heard of??? We all need to give some ground to get justice, and the well meaning correction by the government of past injustice weighs heavily against poor people little better off than the blacks who replace them... No one is going after the great whites who made their fortunes on the pain of blacks or the slavery of hispanic...I think the only reason it is so painful for us to share rights with our underclass and every new immigrant is that we do not have enough... We do not have enough rights because we share so many with property...Rights are powers...Rights are liberties...Rights equal political power, and wealth...I gladly share my rights with all of humanity, but it galls me to my soul that I must share rights with property, and know that every person with more property than myself has more rights than myself without just cause...I have seen rights defined as a property, but where property has rights no rights are inalienable... Eventually all our rights will go up for sale... Those we deny to others today will be denied to us in turn... To whom will we call on for support???Will we this day deny to blacks and hispanics equal opportunity in the hopes that they will one day fully deserve it??? Will we ask that they fight for us, and do stoop labor for us, but then deny to them the equality no one can live without...I won't.. I will ask that the rights of property be stictly limited to equality...We should demand respect for right, personal and civil rights, and if we respect the person we will respect his property... But it is the rights of property and the demands of profit that so put us at odds with our neighbors... Our goal is unity; one nation...The rights of property make us unequal...How long will we bear its distructive influence???Thanks...Sweeney

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I am very happy to read Mr. Barone's comments about the firefighter case in New Haven, Conn. I am a retired Fire Lieutenant and I had much the same experience during my career. When I first tested for the Fire Dept. in 1977, I was told that my Veterans points would not be recognized even though I was honorably discharged and have a Purple Heart, because "It is an unfair advantage towards blacks and females". It was an unfair act when I was drafted and sent to Vietnam also after being married for two years with a pregnant wife, but that was different!!! Since then there has been a blatent bias to promote blacks and females ahead of whites, to the extent that the testing procedure has been changed to their advantage. Phases were introduced into the testing that were subjective judgement calls by individuals that allowed a higher score if you were the politically correct class. Maybe one day there will be a system that promotes individuals based on their abilities rather than their gender or skin color.