Submitted by Dorothy Wachsstock, Jan 21, 2008 07:39

Why else would I awaken this morning and put on c-span to find that the topic this morning is how foreclosures affect minorities? Does it not also affect white people? Most of us get along with people of all colors and religions, so why not "how it affects all Americans? Poor or middle class?

It is the media who writes about the differences and the politicians who go to each group and promise them what they think they want to hear.

As I watch the topics on the panels on c-span, when Congress is in recess, or the topics on the cable programs, we are divided and will never again be able to be the melting pot of immigrants that once came to this country just to be Americans.

Perhaps that is why illegal immigration is such a hot topic this election. All we hear from the pundits is that the illegals come to do the job that Americans will not do. They do not come to be Americans as in past generations. Even the President reiterates the same words. Those that come just to work will never be Americans or think of this country as their own. Yet, they receive the same benefits as citizens. There is no need to become an American citizen anymore.

Today is Martin Luther King's day and I remember his assination. Our young son, 14 years old at the time, wrote a beautiful poem and it was printed in his school paper. People of all colors mourned, but, today, it seems it is only a day of remembrance for people of color and the politicians who vie for who is more in mourning for that loss.

Those of us remember the words of MLK. He wanted his children to be accepted for their character and not their color. Unfortunately, the opposite has happened. Thus the race hustlers are able to cause the problems of today that exist between races with the help of our media.

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