I have been a faithful reader of The Citizen for a long time now, and I wish I had a dime for every time the NAACP complained about something.

I could no longer hold this inside. Quite a few years ago, I was hit in the face by a black guy in school.(Let me mention I was hit because I bumped into him in the hall.) He was suspended for three days, and I was unpunished except for a broken nose.

That was until the NAACP was brought into the matter. I was suspended for three days, also, because when he hit me, I put my hand up to protect my face, and that was considered bodily contact. Therefore, to the NAACP, he was treated equally. I was punished the same way, for trying to protect my face.

I had no one to turn too, because we do not have the NAAWP. Which brings me to this. How many times have we seen a magazine entitled “White Hair”? Let's look at the other side...Black Hair, Ebony, BET (Black Entertainment Television), UniverSOUL Circus, Black Beauty Pagents, Brothers I II and III in the malls, black colleges. I could go on and on but there is not enough space.

My point is, we keep our mouths shut, but yet let someone try and and make an all-white magazine, an all-white circus, and an all-white tv station and name it White Entertainment Television, it would be shot down by the NAACP!

To evryone who reads this, if you do not believe that we are discriminated against, try listening to BET at night, or HBO when they have the black stand-up comedians (I think it is Def Comedy Jam). You will be shocked at what you hear, if you can tolerate the language.

Sandy Johnson
Fayetteville

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