Thread: 'Tis A Good Week To Be Black

Originally Posted by roughneck

I just wonder if we have really come any farther as a nation to being any less racist. If a man was elected president because it was time to have a black man hold that office and people voted for him because of that then it was still racialy motivated. What I am saying is that maybe he was not elected into office because he was the best person for the job but because some people feel we need a black man to be president to help clear us of our white guilt.

Do you really think 349-163 is white guilt? I have been a public servant all my adult life. I have been a Paramedic, an Infantryman, and now an RN. I have always tried to serve the people, but have never been proud to be one of them. I have gone to war for my country. I have held my dying friends in my arms. I have looked into the face of evil, and spit in it. I have never really been proud of who I am, a member of the human race, and American. Today, I can truly say I am PROUD to be an American.