[Harry Rex Vonner]

You finally made a post I can almost 100% agree with. I still think we need some race laws left in place, because the nation as a whole, are not to the place where they can be done away with, yet. I'm talking discrimination laws here. Left unchecked, discrimination runs wild. I wish the people of the US, both sides, were past this.

While I oppose racism per se, I also oppose anti-discrimination laws. I believe that most such laws are clearly in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Equal protection means that all citizens are treated the same. No one has special rights merely because of his/her status in life. Affirmative action, quotas, hate crime laws, etc. are in violation of that basic constitutional right.

For example, a caucasian will likely receive a more severe charge if he batters a member of a minority group than if he batters another caucasian. Are we saying that the head of the minority deserves superior treatment than the head of the caucasian? Why should that be the case?

Equal means equal. Some are not more equal than others. The excuse of past discrimination should have a statute of limitations somewhere along the line. As a caucasian, I should not be expected to carry an excessive burden just because, five or six generations back, my decendents had slaves.

And, while it is admirable to hope that this issue of discrimination were moot, that will never happen. It can't happen any more than will the have nots not resenting the haves and vice versa.

I accept the fact that there will always be prejudice. It goes in all directions with equal vigor. It isn't going to be eradicated. However, I don't accept the trampling of the U.S. Constitution in an effort to give special favors.