Sign the Characters Unite Pledge. Show you stand with others to build a stronger, more tolerant, and respectful USA.

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I did it, I hope it works, but I find most prejudice lies in the older community. Being from the South, I am 46 and when I was 6 I was still in a segregated school and remember in 1st grade when they were changing the last few schools to biracial and parents refusing to send kids to school, my mother didn't but a lot of my friends didn't go to school that day. But my parents and grandparents did use a lot of words that were not considered correct.

My son who is 26 was in a college class yesterday, and he was shocked and he said embarrassed when during this speech class they had to guess the identify of a celebrity. A girl his age asked if he was colored. The teacher who was African American said "Excuse me" giving her ample time to correct her self, but she still said it the same way "Is he colored?" The teacher said, "If your asking is he African American the answer is Yes,". Now she might have been raised this way but don't you learn things on TV and in life in general? I was shocked.

Tell me will the rev Jeremiah Wright sign this pledge...or are Foam-at-the-mouth BLACK racists considered exempt from this program?

I am concerned about a comment that a person made on the video. He stated that we are all American Immigrants. There is one group that is Indigenous to this country and they are the First Nation People. I am a member of the Southern Ute Tribe of Ignacio, CO and I did not come from another country. My people have always been here.

I would request that this information be corrected. Thank you.

Cynthia Kent, Belleville, NJ

Thanks I'll try it now.

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I believe we have one world and the sooner we all realize that the better off we will all be. There should be NO 3rd world countries with the resources on this planet there is more than enough to sustain the world population. Why does it take a tragedy like Haiti to bring us all (but al-quida) together. A smile begets a smile, A handshake begets a handshake, and love begets love. There are many paths to GOD and as long as you have faith you will come to know him/her much better. I am a Christian but also believe in the "big bang" (something had to cause it). Open a door. Smile at a stranger. Offer a hand if you see someone having a hard time. This isn't rocket science it's HUMANITY! Believe in yourself and you will be able to believe in others.
Billy-Laurence Harbor N.J.

tolerance? How about tolerance for site users. charactersunite.com doesn't work and this site is indecipherable. blue on gray (current Firefox) is impossible to read.

Interesting story. My grandmother, who I generally consider to be a great person, told a story once. She said sometime in the 70s in west Texas, a 'colored boy' was walking down the street. I was bothered by this and started to say something, but I gave ther the benefit of the doubt. She said 'this colored boy was coming down the sidewalk and I was walking toward him, and all of a sudden two white guys came up and said, "Hey boy, this white woman is on the sidewalk, and you need to step into the street and let her by." My grandmother said she yelled at the white guys and told the "colored boy" to come have some drinks with her at the bar, which he did. I then told her that that was a great story, but these days "African American" is the preferred term, or black. It was just odd that she didn't consider "colored" the least bit derogatory and would never use it in a derogatory manner.

On a side note, I think "African-American" is the preferred term, but I much prefer 'black'. I'm not a European-American. Most black people have been in the US for 10 generations and aren't African any more than I am. Charlize Theron is an African-American, being from South Africa. Haitians are black, but not African-Americans (although their ancesters were all from Africa centuries ago). I prefer it for accuracy, but also because attaching race to nationality is a bad precedent. Within a generation or so, it's fair to say someone is immigrant more than American (which isn't a bad thing). But after a couple generations, it's counter-productive to say someone is some nationality other than American, regardless how committed they are to their heritage.