Fighting against both race and age discrimination

I was on the trolley coming home this afternoon when two thirty year old (I think) black men starting talking about how all the white people are either pedophiles or drug addicts. I was saddened because they were stereotyping white people just as surely as white people are said to stereotype black people. Not all white people are pedophiles and/or drug addicts, neither are all black people pedophiles and/or drug addicts. When we get to the point where we say...."When we were in our all black neighborhood, things didn't happen like they're happening now...We had discipline, and children respected their parents...or when we were in our all white neighborhood, things didn't happen like they're happening now...We had discipline, and children respected their parents. I got a news flash for you. It's not because the neighborhoods have integrated just like the schools have, that we have the problems we have now. It's because we as a nation have turned our collective backs from God. We took him out of our schools in 1963, and have been filling our children and for some of us our grandchildren with garbage.

Yes, I am showing my age when I say that I long for the times when you could walk safely down the street without worrying about being attacked. I long for the days when everyone who wanted a job could get one and be able to contribute something to society. Part of the reason why things are so messed up is that there are no viable jobs out there that a person can do and feel that they accomplished something with their life. I know there are jobs out there, but I long for the jobs that are no longer there because automation has taken over them. I long for those jobs that showed a person's skill, and that a person could be an apprentice for and have that job for life. Maybe I am old fashioned to yearn for the days when the computer didn't rule our lives...even though it has created tremendous opportunity as well.

I do fight both against race and age discrimination daily as most business have to meet a quota of people of a certain race and age. It just doesn't seem fair.