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peeonme
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Ah, yes! My white male perspective!
First I have spent years arguing with 'red necks' on behalf of minorities. I have told employers not to use the 'n' word around me as well as relatives.
I was proud that we elected a black man to be president.
I know that there is 'unfairness' in our nation, I have seen and experienced it. I spent 18 months away from home and had committed no crime. I was beat with straps, smacked around and made to stand in the sun holding heavy books (the penalty for sunburn).
As for education, I went through the fifth grade, was kicked out of the 6th the second time around, never went to the 7th, saw one semester of the 8th and finished the 9th.
To be honest, I had good reason to become a punk, a mean assed bastard. Instead I got a full time job, I supported myself and my mother at the age of 16.
I ended up running the night shift at 18, when I left there I sold real estate, worked in a coin shop and then became a tool maker.
Anything that I needed to learn I bought a book and studied it.
It was ironic that the guy who was labeled as retarded by his teacher and got expelled and sent to a reform school ended up teaching math to guys on the job.
I have has guns pulled on me by the police, knives pulled by fellow workers. Life can be a bitch, but we can't use that as an excuse to not try.
As I told my brother so often during his his drunken pity parties, we had one thing going for us, we were white. We were not wealthy, our dad had died in our youth and our mother was mad. But, we lived in a nation where being white got your foot in the door.
I freely admit that.
That has been changing, all to slowly, but it has been changing.
I knew at 16 that I needed to use what I had in my favor and go with it, I could easily have said fuck it, this country treated me bad.
I'll alert black America at once, the problem is we just haven't been trying hard enough. 
