Ever since I moved here it has made me sick to see people still fighting the war. They are not white, they are black. It is true. The don't want equal, they want it all! The politicans pander to this for votes and whites let them and the blacks get away with it. I blame the whites here too cause you don't stick up for yourselves. The blacks moan that they should be given a certain number of jobs never mind if they are qualified or not. How is it any different when the whites want their kids on the ball team? I'll tell you how. When the blacks have it they find a way to justify keeping it no matter if it is right or wrong. I would like to clue you in on a few things. Most whites didn't come to America cause they were the king of England. Most came as endentured servants,prisoners, and some were run out of their own countries. They came with nothing, and even when they worked hard and did everthing right they still starved to death right here. There was no saftey net for them. If you want to fight the war again I will tell you some true facts you may want to look up. The Irish immigrants drafted into the Union Army rioted in NY because they were forced to go to war and leave their familes to starve and had no jobs when they came back because Blacks were taking them. The levees along the Mississippi river were built by Irish immigrants, not blacks, want to know why? Look it up. The reason was the black slave was worth money, the work and diseases were dangerous. The Irish would work all day for almost nothing. If they died, the plantation owners didn't lose a thing, there were thousands more to take their place. They were jealous of the slaves because they had someone to feed, cloth, and house them, and care for them if they were sick. Contrary to what you would like to believe, a lot of the white slave owners cared for their slaves like family and there are wills to prove it. There was a black slave ship owned by blacks who lived in Baltimore and ran it into the port of New Orleans. Look it up! A lot of blacks are nice people who want to be treated...THE SAME... there are others who beat on their chest and think all white owe them something. Those are the ones I am talking to...GET OVER IT...you are spoiled brats!

You DO have the right to speak up, just as the blacks parents have the right to speak up, which they do! Funny, I don't hear any of the Mexican, Middle Eastern or other minority's parents complaining, whinning or acting childish. And I do not see many of these children on school teams. It just seems to be the African-American parents I always hear of and read about. Does this make them racist? No. But if a white parent complains or takes some of the measures as a few of the African-American parents have, the tag of a racist is automatically pinned on them. Did anyone look at the 8th grade Flat Rock Boys Basketball team. Not one "true white" boy on the team. All of the players were African-American except one player, and he was Jewish. Yes, I am sure they were white boys that were very good at basketball, but all of these boys were the best at that given time. I hope that no child is not being given the same chance just because of race. But if that is the case and one screams it is not fair, they are right. THE ONLY FAIR IN LIFE COMES AND GOES IN OCTOBER and it's not in town now.

Hats off to LeGay Saul. You hit the nail on the head with your statement about racism. The blacks in this county expect and demand to be "EQUAL" but what they really want is to be one step better than the white race. If the shoe was on the other foot with 99% white on a basketball team or any other sports team we would have the NAACP and every other racial group protesting our schools. We hear everyday about the blacks wanting to be treated better and the truth is they are because todays society afraid of law suits and protest. Our schools are afraid to stand up for the rights of the whites as much as they do for the blacks. Our son was told that he could not wear his "Dixie Outfitters" shirts because it might offend some of the black students, but the black students are allowed to wear their FUBU, Fat Albert, and baggy pants that show their butt. Dixie Outfitters is a clothing line, the same as FUBU (which if you don't know stands for "for us by us"), but the black students are allowed to wear them. The school board needs to stand up for the rights of students who aren't breaking the dress code with their clothes, and who aren't creating a safety concern with their clothes (baggy pants where weapons can be hidden) and allow white students to wear what they believe in just like the black students are allowed to wear what they believe in (for us by us- how racist can you get?)
A group has organized themselves in the north end of the county to create a sports complex in that area. These people claim their children have to go out of the county to play sports, so they demanded a complex in their area. The real reason is because they want to play with other "black" kids, and don't want to play sports in the centrally located complexes that are probably the majority white because this county is majority white. That, too, is racism, but no one will stand up and call it what it is. Is the reason for this complex necessity or racism because the black parents don't want their children to play sports on a predominantly white team?
Maybe the parents of white students should start threatening law suits and protests when their children are discriminated against by a school system that is obviously being intimidated by bogus complaints of racism!! And, the school system needs to be reminded that racism is not just white against black, racism is discriminating against anyone for the color of their skin, whatever that color may be!