Dear Mr. President

President-Elect Obama:

Please fix it so I don't have to go to work anymore. My evil rich boss made me work almost 10 hours yesterday just because he had given me the last 11 days off for Christmas. Also, the bank keeps making me pay them back the $200,000 I borrowed to build my house. Please keep them off my back so I can buy this really big boat I've had my eye on for a while. The power company (who is using dirty coal to make electricity) sends me a bill every month. Please start making them use puppy dog tails and fairy dust to generate power.

All of these things I ask in your name.

Will

Truly unbelievable, but then Victims have always had someone else to blame their screw ups.

Derrick: Don't you think it would also help to demolish the New Black Panther Party and the NAACP?

why does color always have to be a factor? racism will never end if we keep dwelling on the color of a person's skin!

It's not the skin color that those are racist are concerened about. It's what the skin color represents. Everything the younger A. American males do is mostly violent & gets front page news & that's generally all the public is given by the media. Then it's up to the readers to either believe or disbelieve??? In America usually the many do get blamed for the actions of the few! OR maybe Judged would be a better word?

"Save future presidents (that are black of course)!!!"...WTF??????

my thoughts exactly karma!

why does the chronicle print this crap, this paper is awful

These letters were written by elementary school children. They are writing about the things they see and hear from adults. The same adults who are on here wondering "WTF" at some of the statements in the letters should consider the effects of their words and actions around children. These children see and hear racism from both sides everyday. They may even read it in the AC, especially the comments from other readers. Why wouldn't they think any differently than some of you? The races in Augusta are too pigheaded to come together. The letters that you read from the children are the result. Try to change, if not for yourselves, then for your children.

"Save future presidents (that are black of course)" you missed the point of this comment. This was preceded by Derrick suggesting that he eliminate the KKK, a white supremacist group notorious for killing blacks, so his suggestion of eradicating the group (in his 5th grade mind) would prevent what he sees as a likely group of people who would be motivated enough by hatred to make such an attempt on Obama or any future black president. His statement also implies that he now believes having one black president automatically opens the door for future blacks to serve. But in his mind, the KKK would be a hindrance to making that a reality for Obama or any other black person hence his comments "save yourself and future black presidents." if you would've put yourself in the author's shoes as you read this letter you wouldn't be offended and I'm quite sure his intentions were not to offend. Your inability to even try to see American life from a non-white perspective is why you took offense to a 10yr olds letter. Kudos to the Chronicle for printing it.

Glad to see that 10 year old boys who are being raised by their unemployed, unwed, racist, black, single mothers are being taught so well at home.

This is not the thoughts of a 10 year old, but rather the racist, bigoted attitudes of his parents and surroundings rearing it's ugly head continuously. Dare we wonder why America will never be at peace withinn when this garbage is forever perpetuated.

Ode to Augusta your comments are a perfect example of the ignorant perspective i'm referring to. why would you assume because he's black that he's being raised by an unemployed, unwed racist black single parent? I don't share that 10yr old's view only understood what he was trying to say. for you to assume an ingorant, racist, stereotype about this young man is the reason kids like him develop such attitudes in America today.

Senior23 Derrick's letter is far from racist and is not the bigoted views of his parents. one would only need to read the comments posted by everyday readers on this site to understand its the world we live in that perpetuates such views. Bet you missed yesterday's story of TSA paying $240K to a man who was refused boarding on a plane because his tshirt read in Arabic writing "we will not be slient"- nothing offensive about it but I'm quite sure the offended were afraid of what the translation meant and complained. Because of their racism TSA is now footing the bill. Until non-minorities can look at our society from a non-white perspective and reflect on what it means to be a minority in a society that continues to see the skin color first racism will "forever perpetuate" in America,, so there's nothing in his letter that's offensive only a 10yr old's suggestions from his reality as a minority.

Very well said karenlyss. I happen to know the young man parents...they are both working and middle class people. Derrick was only expressing his views as he sees the world and his letter was never intended to be racist. The Augusta Chronicle should have publish all the letters and not the ones they thought would create a buzz.

I think all hate groups should be demolished, Klu Klux Klan, Black Panthers, and so on!

In respones to mommy22girls............ I agree with you 100%... amen.........................