Morris G. of Texas is correct. I came home in 1996 to live for a while and could not get a job in my fleid. (Food Service Director) I graduated from the Culinary Academy in Pittsburgh. And no one would hire me. One WHITE man told me I was over qualified and I would not stay with him if he hired me. WHY ARE WHITE PEOPLE AFRAID OF BLACK PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE EDUCATED. I had too move back to Atlanta. I would get a lot of calls but, when I would go to the interview and they seen that I was black the job was fill or I was over qualified. I didn't realize how racist Pittsburgh was until I left and came back. You have to leave Pittsbrugh to really see the racism.

Black Pittsbrugher are racist also. Those that have had the good fortune to get out of Homewood they don't want no parts of Homewoods mess not even to ride though Homewood.

We as a Nation we have a obligation to the children of this country to get the race issuse right. Other country are not as racsit as America and that is so sad. To show you what I mean. Hillary came to Pittsburgh. She held a press conference in a gas station in Bloomflied. A white Irish & Italian community that has not felt the lost of its business community. Why didn't she come to Homewood well that my be because Homewood doesn't have a gas station or a grocery or maybe because the Mayor didn't see the need for Hillary to see the Black hole in his city.

I am praying for Homewood and all who live in Homewood. To all the Parents in Homewood that have children of voting age TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO THE POLLS WITH YOU. THEY WILL NEVER FORGET IT AND WHY WILL BE A LIFE VOTER.

P.S. WE HERE IN ATLANTA ARE STILL HOPING MYHOMEWOOD WILL PRINT THE INFORMATION ON HOW TO BUY THE HOMES IN HOMEWOOD SO WE CAN HELP. -- Lillian C., Jonesboro, Ga.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, lived in East Liberty, went to Larimer elementary, Westinghouse junior high and graduated from South Hills High. I left Pittsburgh for New York right out of high school because I wanted to see something else. I had never been out of Pittsburgh before. I thought I was going to be gone temporarily. Well some 44 years later I am still here. New York has given me some great opportunities, some I don't think I would have gotten had I stayed in Pgh. Now I'm a grandmaw, and I think about retiring in a few years. New York is too expensive to retire in. SO ... I've been thinking about Pgh. Last April (07) I flew down for 5 days, stayed in a hotel near PItt, rented a car and drove all over. My old neighborhood in East Liberty is a real heart breaker, It looks like they're just waiting for it to fall down so they can just push it over the hill. I don't know what I expected but not this bad. Larimer school looks like it was in a fire, whynot tear it down and do something with the property, my old streets Whittier, Joseph,Orphan are blighted. It's horrible. I drove back three times to take it all in. SAD, SAD, SAD. Now I'm looking in the suburbs of Philly. Does anyone remember when East Liberty, though poor was a great place to grow, we all lived together, blacks and italians, fathers worked in the mill and we were happy. Sometimes I wished I had never gone back, it ruins good memorials. -- Dale S., Elmont, N.Y.

i can give you a few i once had a white man in his early sixty's say he wanted to look like a n ----- on election day .I work in a hospital.Assuming this is something he learned from his father.Once I was talking to a white man he addressed a black man as a colored boy he explained to him his color is black an he is a man not a boy you are white point blank.People are very down right rude at times. -- Michelle G., Highland Park

I experienced racism while shopping at Kaufmann's on Fifth Avenue. The sales clerk made me wait a long time for service at the watch counter. She didn't want to show me the watch that I wanted but some cheaper watches. I use to visit the Greenfield area alot from 1979 til 1983 and I noticed that only a few black families were living in that area. My last visit to Pittsburgh was in 1999 and the Greenfield area was still lily white after nearly 20 years. -- Vangie M., Mobile, Ala.