To Mr. Tennant, Ph.D., Racial Double Standard: Although you are the authority on the racial double standard in America today, here are some tidbits you left out. If you Google “White Associations” you get 14 million more hits than you do for “African American Association.” If you Google “Association of White” you get 28 million more hits than for “Association of Black.”

And what does this prove? Nothing. Too much Hannity for you. It is hard to support any coherent argument on race relations using this fodder.

But if you’ve been pulled over in your car five times, as I have, and asked, “Who’s car is this? Where ya headed?” then sent on your way because you were breaking no traffic laws, you might understand.

If you have been steered from white neighborhoods as my family has, you might understand. Realtors actually told us that it was for our own good.

If you are one of the 60 percent of Katrina victims denied leases because you were black, you might understand.

I have been asked how much I charge as I cut my own front yard. I imagine you never have had that experience. This leads people to feel they need to associate and network for their own best interests, and to have an equal voice.

It is not a threat to you. The Girl Scouts are not threats to Boy Scouts, but girls have something in common. If you listened to Urban AKA Black radio stations, you would have heard Mayor Nagin called “crazy” and “out of control.” But you most likely get your information second- or third-hand.

Please, Mr. Tennant, stick to the politics you know, whatever that may be.

Kevin King
Peachtree City, Ga.

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