We let the Republicans get away with their statement “life begins at conception”. Election after election and year after year we buy into that statement. If you think about what that mean and how the government currently handles this, we are totally duped.

Our tax code do not allow for any deductions for life at conception. Neither will an insurance company write you a life insurance policy for an unborn fetus.

Example: If you became pregnant in April and have your baby in January, it will be 21 months before you can claim that child and get a tax credit for that child. The baby has to be born before you can get a tax credit or a life insurance policy on that baby.

That doesn’t look or sound like life begins at conception. It is life begin when the child is born and that’s the way our government allow for deductions.

How many tax policies were introduced by the Republicans over the years to give a parent a tax credit when they became pregnant? I doubt any. We have been duped!!!

We found out years later after we had left for the military that these offers had came in. Oops, too late. That’s right, out of eight children, five served in the military and three retired from the military. All these children are under the age of fifty-five. How long ago has this history been gone? This makes me wonder, if the history long gone had not occurred, what would these children have become? How many more have similar stories?

I am not taking punches at “white folks” for sending their children to a Christian school or private school to get “a good education.” God bless you for having the resources or making the sacrifice to do so. But, it is no doubt that a school system was left and the resources (money and knowledge) that were there when white children occupied those buildings are no longer there. Why?

I work for a Fortune 500 company and see so many of these children from the Christian schools or private schools leaving high school and competing for the same jobs the children from the public schools are competing for. Why spend all that money for a good education and not go on to college? Something else is there beside the desire for a good education. Most of these schools have the same books, get out of school the same time and schedule the days off the same as the public schools. Something else is going on.

What happen when a girl in these Christian schools or private schools get pregnant or those boys cause problems in the school? They send them to these public schools. Why, if it’s so bad?

I am a Christian who teaches the Men Sunday school Class at my church, retired from the U.S. Navy; work as an Information Technology Specialist and still in my forty. My family has a long history of Christian service through that “history long gone”. My grandfather, father, three brothers, over twenty relatives are ministers, with numerous teachers, singers and musicians in this family.

When Christians or so called Christians quit running away from the problems of this world, and believing that we are right because it benefits our family members, this world will indeed become a better place. We say we follow the teaching of Jesus, but could you imagine if Jesus had looked at the violence of this world and decided to return to heaven without dying on the cross. We keep forgetting what Jesus said about the “Least of These”. Yes, my children are in public school, not because I can’t afford a private education, but someone has to try to make a different in the public system.

I was taught as a Christian to stand for what is right, no matter the consequences. My mother and father cared for over sixty foster children, white and black. I sent money home to help with the care of these children and some never left. We call them brothers now. My COLOR is clear.

Life is a learning experience. You reference a time in history long gone, when a ‘white’ church wouldn’t consider having people of color inside their church doors, let ALONE in their congregations. Are there still racially polarized churches in our country? Of course there are and they’re NOT all white congregations. But thankfully most of our society has actually learned from the past and has evolved past their racist upbringing. TRUE Christianity sees only a brother or sister in Christ, the color of that ‘relative in Christ’ not mattering one bit. We learn and go on learning….

But for you to take punches at ‘white folks’ for sending their kids to Christian schools I suggest you’ve been misinformed. My grandchildren (my daughter’s kids) attend a Christian school for reasons having NOTHING to do with race! The condition of our public schools has gone so far downhill that to send those children there would be to expose them to violence, ANTI-Christian ideas (from some. not all), and so many more problems that our public school kids face now days. And they’re doing this at SUBSTANTIAL cost and burden with none of it subsidized by any government program. WHY should their parents insist they be made victims to a failing, decaying system? I WISH my son and his wife could and would send their children to a similar school. And for your information their Christian school is open to ANY race, NOT just ‘white people’ (as is the church that operates the school). Do you KNOW of a Christian school that limits itself to only white children? I’ve personally never heard of one. So please don’t be so quick to condemn something JUST because you want to tag racism on it. Frankly YOU sound like that ‘Agent of Intolerance’ to me. And to answer your question “Or are we beginning to show our TRUE COLORS?” I’d say your post plainly shows yours.

Why did white christian folks believe they had a need to start all these private christian schools? Too choose who could attend or get away from those other folks? See “Agent of Intolerance.” We are on our way to healing a nation. Or are we beginning to show our TRUE COLORS?