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After reading Yale Kramer's commentary, I was compelled to write and comment.

I'm a 52-year-old black female and I pretty much agree with Mr. Kramer's overall assessment of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. I won't go as far as he did by calling them black racist, moth-eaten demagogues but I will say that both seem to take advantage of every opportunity to play the race card. For them, and for most in a capitalist society, it's all about profit, often at anyone's expense. Don't get me wrong, what Imus said was very demeaning, damn right crude, and if I'd been one of these young women, I would have done some name-calling right back at him -- old, wrinkled up, dried up, nappy-headed fart.

What Al and Jesse, our so called black leaders, need to focus on are the real problems that plague black American cities and communities: new HIV cases, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, unemployment, black on black crime, high-school dropouts, babies having babies, crack addition, to name a few maladies. (We black Americans seem to head every negative list ever compiled.)

Don't think for a minute that I'm completely in agreement with most white Americans when it comes to race and race relations. I have issues with most white Americans not wanting an apology for slavery. I have issues with health care for whites versus health care for blacks. I have issues with white America being "deliberately dismissive" when debating issues that affect the black communities. Racism is indeed alive and well in America, and we all need to face these issues. I've often wondered why there has never been a Race Relations Committee in the United States Congress. Hmm...

p>Thanks for listening and may God bless and protect our children and soldiers everywhere! br> -- Pamela A. Hairston br> Washington, D.C. /p>

I have only two complaints about Yale Kramer's piece:

One, the assertion that Don Imus is funny. Perhaps he was at one time, but certainly not since he became one of the undead, which was, what, thirty, forty years ago?

p>Two, the characterization of Al Sharpton as "nappy-headed." I don't know what exactly is going on on top of that huckster's head, but I don't believe it fits the definition of "nappy." br> -- Scott Pandich

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