The Million Man March symbolizes the struggles that blacks face each day. I hope that in the future a march for people with mental and physical disabilities will come. People with all types of diasabilities are ignored by the federal government, much like blacks are.

Although there are blacks in both the House and Senate, both continue to have a predominantly white male majority. It’s so unfortunate that the normal white male refuses to accept women and minorities (including the disabled) in all sorts of jobs and high-ranking positions.

I personally suffer from autism. It’s a rare development of the brain and the information that it receives. I’m a proud white male that doesn’t act like any othere white male. I’ve been teased heavily by other white males because of my strange behavior my disability brings.

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My whole life I’ve been treated as a second class citizen like black people. I face a great deal of prejudice and discrimination as much as blacks do. It gets so frustrating that our needs in the country aren’t being met by the messed up government.

My problems are compounded by the fact that I’m the only SIUC student with autism. it grieves me to think that blacks are continually denied the things they need. Food stamps, social security benefits go to the people who don’t really need them, especially the normal white males. Of course there are whites, both male and female , that suffer fron disabilities other than myself. The disabled need to get a rally planned in the future like the Million Man March in Washington. Rallies can tell the white male government not to ignore any minority groups and women.

It would be cool if there were no normal white males in all sections of the government. In closing I hope that everybody can gel together as one race, the human race. Also, the blacks should be proud that a rally to stop the normal white male dominance is now underway. It shows Washington that they won’t be ignored any further. Welcome to the 90′ and the 21st century, normal white males!

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