I wouldn’t blame a single black person who may had hated white people back in the 60’s and beyond.

I've never heard anyone call Martin Luther King Jr. a racist, ever. I personally think that he was very much to be admired, and we could really use someone like him today.

But I know that racism exists in all directions today, and it's wrong, regardless of what direction it's in. I think that Martin Luther King Jr. would be very saddened by the direction things have gone during the last 25 years or so, since the infamous Rodney King beating. I agree with the other person here, who pointed out that labeling large groups of people racist, when you know hardly anything about them as individuals, does nothing to help the situation. It just makes you prejudiced yourself.

I know that horrible things were done to blacks, and people of other races, because of their race. I'm not even going to argue that point. But most of these things were done long before I was born, and I personally haven't done anything to hurt anyone just because of their race. And I have made a conscious effort to avoid judging anyone on the basis of their race. So it's really not fair to label me, or any white person, or anyone of any race for that matter, as racist just because of some things that some other people did long before I was born.

Why can't we just deal with each other as individuals, and put race aside? If we're going to judge someone (which we shouldn't anyway), it should be based on what they themselves have done, not because of something that others have done, who happen to be the same race.

There, I've said my piece. I don't know if anything I've said will make any difference here, but it needed to be said, regardless.