For over 7 years I have been warning that this day would come. Suicides? They don't care! Nervous breakdowns, they douldn't care less. I'm talking about the administrators at the Dayton VA. For the most part there are a lot of great employees at the VA. It is the leaders, administrators, particucarly Guy Richardon, the Medical Center Director who is apathetic to the point of making you want to throw up. A fish rots from the head down. If the leadership is rotten it makes the entire body dead!

Anybody who would be so insensitive to how they would appear to the people while dressed as a Nazi does not have the judgment to lead in this country. Anybody would strip his own community of hundreds of jobs simply to get rich (er) then have the unmitigated gall to expect that same community to vote him into office has a lot of nerve. Ms. Kaptur may not be the best candidate to represent us but she is certainly about 3000% better than this arrogant out of touch idiot! I bet his father is rolling in his grave!

It is what it is! Your logic negates commonsense. First my writing is not ranting. It is a conversation. Secondly, if I see racism I am not going to deny it because you might make fun of it.

And another thing....is this what you expend your energy and the precious oxygen God gives you thinking about? I would strongly encourage you to contribute to life as opposed to tearing others down. Anyone who speaks in this manner was already a racist. George Bush's election was filled with so much controversy it had to be awarded via the Supreme court. Obama won a majority, no dispute but he "wormed his way in". Spoken like a true certified racist if ever there was one.

I just had a person write me and say that she thinks they all can simply take a flight to Africa. That’s interesting. I’ve had people say that to me in the past. You see the thing is I was born in Chicago. My parents were born in Alabama, as were my grandparents and great-grandparents. It is this type of ignorant thinking, put to words that is the root of the racial problems in this country. Simply because one does not agree with you, you want to take away their citizenship, deny the sacrifices they have made for this country and send them to some far-off land they have no identity with. I did not come from Africa. I have never been to Africa, which is a definite prerequisite in order to “go back” to Africa. On the contrary I am a proud American who has served his country, with valor, in several positions. Racism is nothing more than a person with an inferiority complex attempting to justify their reason for existing by putting someone else down. The problem here is that person needs mental health treatment to deal with their own feelings of “less than others”. The truth is God did not make people less than or better than others. He just made people, period! ______

The point being missed here is that Mr. Holder was not calling "only" white people cowards, he was calling blacks cowards, too. I agree with him. AS an American citizen, Viet Nam Era, Honorably discharged Veteran who happens to be covered with brown skin, who also has many, many white friends I understand exactly what he is talking about. Over the years some of m white friends and I have had many deep conversations about racism. We would be out to dinner with our children vigorously discussing these issues, What I came away with was the fact that because we are both so very ignorant of each others true feelings that we often offend without intention or awareness. So, YES we need to talk more and talk and talk until we unlearn th acts we feel are innocuous when they are really offensive.