Am I hearing this right? Is America listening to this? What would you call the comment, and I quote, "The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," from the nationally televised mouth of Sen. Hillary Clinton. Also, comments by New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, "This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. .... This city will be chocolate at the end of the day." And not only nationally televised, but throughout the world.

Everyone knows what Sen. Clinton is talking about! She is inferring Democratic "Slaves" to the Republican as "Master Plantation Owners", I am trying to be civil in the annotation with refrain from the more blatantly ugly inference realized. Are these the ideas that go through her mind? Does she have a deep-seeded racially bias negativity that allows for these ugly formations? The context may not seem to many as racially derrogative but in fact, it is. Many of us fight against the use of the term she is inferring and yet many of you do not realize that is exactly what she is saying, yet in not with the vulgar terminology. Not only that but she turned a day of honor for a great American, Martin Luther King, Jr., into her own Political spotlight. Odd how she selected this day to present her speech to the world. Is this the type of President we want for our Nation?

Mayor Nagin is also doing his share of dividing the people of his city as well as America. He is a city leader, his job is to help heal division among the people, not ignite it. How is this honoring a man that gave his life to bring all of America together as one?

When Political leaders begin forging wedges of discrimination with derrogatory remarks of this magnitude, it begins to break open conflicts in the healing process. Although the intent was political for Sen. Clinton, it bleds through to our American family creating division.

Many in America have fought hard against the racial conflicts within our own country. Martin Luther King, Jr., give him the respect he deserves for the life he gave. Give him what he fought for, let him rest in peace knowing he made a difference. Underneath our skin we are all the same, there is no race or color.

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