Something I should have published a long time ago...

Sometimes it really sucks knowing right from wrong. Just last week a friend offered to buy me a net book and what do I do? I think about it! Because I know coltan is an ingredient in all of our modern day technologies: cell phones, computers, etc. I also know that this mineral is found in the Congo and this is why they are having a war over there; this is why women are being raped and people are being mutilated and tortured...so that I can have my iPhone or Dell Netbook. Unfortunately, I also know right from wrong and for some reason one just doesn't justify the other. So what did I do? I got angry...WITH MYSELF! Who thinks about stuff like this, you know? So I go online in search of a coltan-free Netbook. What did I find? Not a damn thing! Why have, all this time, I thought these things were made from plastic. But no, no, no it's made from some rare $%@* in the ground over in Africa where they're killing and torturing people to access it. Where they're raping women with knives and forcing mothers to eat their children. Where they make husbands watch as a group of soldiers rape his wife...where all this evil $#*& is happening and all I want is a damn Netbook. Why the hell are companies using this material anyway?! F*($! All I WANT IS A NETBOOK WITHOUT HAVING THIS $%*# ON MY CONSCIOUS!... but don't let me ruin it for you...the big companies sure have not. Ignorance sure is bliss.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. President Obama. Sgt. James Crowley.

Town hall meet. President Obama. Guns.

Televised speech. President Obama. Belligerent man yells "LIAR"!

These are but only a few touchy experiences our president has had thus far since taking oath in office. Since then, officials have confirmed an increased amount of racial groups sprouting all over America. Many people believe it's all about race but many also believe it is all political. So which is it?

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Jimmy Carter told NBC Nightly News.

"I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shares the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans."

Michael Steele, has another opinion saying, "President Carter is flat-out wrong. This isn't about race. It is about policy."

But Bill Cosby agrees with Carter saying "During President Obama's speech on the status of health care reform, some members of Congress engaged in a public display of disrespect."

It is true that I have been noticing a lot of disrespect towards President Obama. This could be because I never watched a President so hard and so perhaps it happened with previous Presidents. However, I can't help but to think i'ts got plenty to do with race, with the same amount of political games our government has been playing. What is your take? I mean, have you not heard people claim the only reason they did/didn't vote for him was because he was black? When has that ever happened in our history?

NEVER!! So, how can it not be about race?