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We talk about ending racism and promoting equality and yet....

At the company where I work we have a diversity policy. We even have to attend diversity meetings and have diversity teams. The Idea is to promote acceptance of all colors, creads, ages, lifestyles and such. To learn and understand the differences, the accept the differences as a personal right and to learn to work to gether as one.

Does it work? On paper yes, in life no. Why? I guess that depends on which side of the current issue you are on.

We have the Quannel X's and Jessie Jackson's fighting for any precetion of wrong against blacks, but who do we have for the gays and whites and what ever other "group" that may percieve that they have been wronged?

Let me give you an exampl. We have a person in out office who is responsible for creating and upkeeping a monthly calender. It shows the department holidays as well as estabalished holidays and all those stupid little holidyas that give you a reason to laugh. She has went out of her way to make this eye appealing and to try and represent every consivable race, creed, color holiday with out trying to offend anyone. We some of them potientially offencive to someone else? Yes but we must all get along. Now comes Redneck day. So she list a few of Jeff Foxworthy's jokes (actually in small print). Now this can not be allowed as "not everyone finds this funny".

Come on folks. You have looked at Christian, Cathilic, Buddist, Islamic, Hindiu, Musslim, Wiccian, Driud, Black, Gay...and kept on going but get offended(the post was actually removed with the note and placed in her mail box) by a few Redneck jokes.

It's kind like the TV remote. If you don't like the channel you change it. If you don't like the post, look at a different one.

Come on folks! We are suppose to be a melting pot. Start melting! stop looking at colors. We are all shades of brown anyway!

Stop letting people like Quanel seperate us and learn to live together. The past is the past and should stay there. Move on and look to the future!