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This is my first blog and I am still a little confused about the concept, so bear with me. I am a United States Marine. I have been in 10 years and loving every minute. My family is my strength and God is my foundation through Christ. I am very opinionated and I can admit that I am sometimes wrong, either because at times I am naive or just because I am sometimes rash. I am still figuring out my political views, it is hard to do in this time and age because it seems that the party platforms shift as often as tectonic plates do. I love technology (taken from Napoleon Dynamite). I have a super phone (HTC Kaiser aka AT$T Tilt), which I will go into further details in posts to come, that seems to take up entirely too much time of my life. I love to fish. I do not keep the fish, just being out in nature with my sons and spending time with them is enough.

Here is the first of many topics...

Background: I was driving somewhere and heard an ad on the radio to support the UNCF (United Negro College Fund). So you know, I am not Caucasian or Hispanic. I am both. I have friends and colleagues from all ethnicity's, races, gender etc. For a long time now I have given up trying to figure out people by looking at them. I am all for people getting college education. I am all for helping out people who are in need of assistance.

So here is my first question to anyone who will read this and has time to answer:

Do you think that the name of the organization United Negro College fund is further dividing the nation, or is it helping repair the injuries of the past?

I believe it hurts America by bringing up a chapter in history that was wrong and horrible and focusing on it rather than focusing on the bigger picture. We need to move on and pave a new future, one away from skin color and all other divisors and get to the real problems. How to secure and protect our Nation from terrorists, how to fix our economy and how to bring America back to conservative family values that will allow us all to be prosperous. You do not have to believe in God or be a Republican to believe that a strong family unit is the key to our children's future.

FYI, I would not endorse, donate to , or defend the UCCF (United Caucasian College Fund) or the UHCF (United Hispanic College Fund).

Mark43 Out!!!