More involved than experience, records

Lima is such a prejudiced town. You've got people saying black women and black men can't get jobs around here because they have felonies on their record or they're not qualified.

For a long time, I actually believed that - until one day I though to myself, "I don't have a felony on my record nor am I a young woman who is inexperienced to any of the jobs for which I've applied." I have been working ever since I was 14. My first job was as a bus girl, and I've worked ever since then. I'm 31 now and I have 13 years retail/sales experience, eight years in industry and many years in other fields.

People like Jesse Lowe say drugs bring death, and this is true, but when you can't get a job anywhere, what is someone to do? Starve their families, live on the streets or just hold signs up that say will work for food? I always was taught that a closed mouth doesn't get fed. We are going into 2009 and it seems like nothing has changed.

Well, for the people who think Barack Obama shouldn't be president because he is an intelligent, black man: If he is elected as our president, you all are in for a rude awakening.