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Racism not a problem today

The Spokesman-Review

It’s funny to me how a black man can constantly bring up the past and use it to try to make anyone who isn’t black feel guilty about history that has nothing to do with anything any living American has any part of.

Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. (“Fighting for a paradox,” Feb. 8) reminds us of Nazis eating (in America) where blacks cannot. News flash: It’s not 1945, and today blacks have more rights than any other group in America. You have all-black TV, college and affirmative action. If there were any all-white anything, it’s racist. There is even a black president.

So please, stop beating a dead horse. What more could you want? Why don’t you try talking about how hard it is to be a middle-class white man in America?

Jarrod Womack

Coeur d’Alene

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