It is very disheartening to see the real racism rear its ugly head repeatedly with such rancor. I know that most people I know don’t see color but personhood.

Years earlier, Dr. King had said his hope was for a country in which we would be judged by the quality of our character rather than the color of our skin.

Sadly, to Sharpton and his cohorts it is all about the color of one’s skin.

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Here are three excerpts from the Washington Post blog re Sharpton?s event:

This is America. All groups ought to have the opportunity to speak and give their point of view. We?ve been at the Mall,? said the Rev. W. Franklin Richardson, president of Grace Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, N.Y. ?It?s all right with me that they are at the Mall today because we are at the White House.?

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Don?t let anyone tell you that they have the right to take their country back,? Avis Jones DeWeever, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women told the crowd at the Rev. Al Sharpton?s rally. ?It?s our country, too. We will reclaim the dream. It was ours from the beginning.? The crowd roared

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The crowd at the Sharpton rally, which has the feel of a concert right now, is small ? with a few hundred people and a long line around Dunbar High School. It?s predominantly black ? though not exclusively.

? Krissah Thompson

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What was this: Don’t tell anyone they have the right to take their country back?

Al Sharpton, go home. Glenn Beck has done more to bridge race relations in this country, than all your victim rants.

Racists like Mr. Sharpton, only use God when it is convenient for their purposes. Guess his advisers forgot to remind him about God yesterday, since up the street, the people were feeling truly blessed to be able to speak openly and honestly about their genuine faith.

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He is a favorite of the “Ruling Class Media” . I would love to see public approval disapproval numbers for Sharpton. Especially numbers broken down demographically.

Come together, your fair share and giving back: When those in government use these words they are encouraging the individual to roll over and accept being robbed. They are encouraging a populist beat down of the productive.

I dislike most the phrase “giving back”. If one wants to be generous, shut up about it and do it. It’s what we do without public notice that defines us. God will see it and little else matters.

I’ll name a few very public ones I can remember and for which there are pictures and video:

On 9/11 in 2001, as the Twin Towers burned and imploded, 1000s of people were stranded, injured, or just disoriented and confused, and news reports showed the victims of every stripe and color and their aids and helpers, EMTs, fire, and police, and just other people, as rescuers, also of every shade and ethnicity.

In New Orleans, in August, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina struck and much of the city was wind-racked and flooded, blacks and whites set out in rowboats and even canoes to rescue friends and strangers. The WSJ ran a huge piece on how several escapees, mostly black,, from the disaster in the 9th Ward banded together in a flotilla, attracting more people and boats as they tried for safety, were eventually met by Coast Guard on Lake Ponchartrain and ferried to the safety of homeowners, mostly white, on unflooded land.

In Oakland, CA, 1989, an earthquake collapsed a highway overpass. A photo of rescuers running to help included every stripe and color the US produces.

All we hear of are attacks and racial friction and crime, whereas in real life, most of the time, people get along civilly and as friends, but those non-man-bites-dog stories are never circulated.

In my own neighborhood, and I do not live in a famously integrated area like Columbus, MD, on my left, the home is owned by a gay landscaper and on my right, until last winter, a black nurse and her three children rented a house.

My son attended Rutgers in the late 80s, and his junior year his roommates were a Philippino from Manila, a Columbian as a foreign exchange student, and a black athlete, whom I never met, altho’ I spoke to him on the phone a couple times (before cell phone madness). He was always in the library or at practice, and I called him my son’s “phantom” roommate. But they thought nothing of the situation that I said they should write a network and proposed a tv show for. These groupings are much more common than the professional news mongers, who need to promote discord and conflict, want to know or report.

As for last year’s 9/12 demonstration or Becks 8/28 of yesterday, the news reports do not notice Asians, Hispanics of light color, or the various US ethnic mixes of Italians, Greeks, Poles, yadda who are the “white” population. The news reports as if “whites” are some monolithic amalgam of descendants of strictly British Mayflower settlers and forget that Beck attracted people from MN and WI of Scandinavian extraction, KY and TN hillbillies of Scots-Irish roots, and/or Southern rednecks whose families may go back to colonial times and retirees from all over with a multiplicity of backgrounds.

Making whties and Christians all bigots and racists is self defeating for the American polity altogether and a very bad mantra for people of color who will never be in the majortiy here.

Beck is to be commended for a wonderful gathering and for not letting this be what the liberal media thought it would be. By taking the higher road I believe it will make it tougher for the media and the left to use this as a firing point come November.