I grew up in a very white town in Prince Edward Island, Canada. There were no black families when I was a kid. This is an Island on the Atlantic Ocean. It was very Scottish, English, Irish, and French until the 80’s when Canada opened it’s doors to Vietnamese refugees. These days there are many different ethnicities - back in the 70’s - 80’s it was a different world. People will discriminate. This is a sad fact. In my white town the lines were between poverty and wealth. When girls “from the wrong side of the tracks” got pregnant they were “trash” and “sluts.” However, when a girl from a “good” (wealth and position in the community) family got pregnant she was just a “poor girl who had been taken advantage of by a boy.” It infuriated me! Though I never got pregnant I was constantly called, “Welfare Trash.” Name calling solves nothing and takes the validity away from legitimate arguments. I have NO doubt that if Obama had a pregnant daughter there would be lots of comments about, “baby momma drama.” There are lines where ALL North Americans seem to think it is just fine to stereotype. The bottom line is: the same act makes a baby. White girl or black girl - SAME. Wealthy educated family - Poor uneducated family: it’s the SAME DAMN THING! I believe this is a WORLD election. Invisible borders don’t change the fact that economies are suffering the world over, and soldiers are dying from everywhere. Sarah Palin is a dangerous, inexperienced woman. Her pension for gun toting and “This is Gods war” scare the crap out of me. The fact that she could be sitting in the #2 chair at the Whitehouse is enough to stop my heart. I am sitting here in Canada praying that she and McCain don’t take office. There is a separation of Church and State for a reason. I think Palin is a far cry from what “Barbie” represents. I think she should be feared and not mocked.

Whoopi: Thanks for the straight talk…..I am from Iowa….we did get and are getting help from FEMA….It is taking time,,,,and there are frustrations,,,,and delays,,,,but they are here…along with private organizations,,,churches,,,communities,,,,and neighbors… I hope we are not complaining too much… You are right about the white/black issue….I am working in my way to change it. But,,,bottom line,,,Sarah Palin may be talking for the common woman,,,but she is not talking for me…..

Maurine - You absolutely hit the “nail” on the head with your fantasy remarks from Ms. Palin! And every one of those facts is why she scares me to death - and I really do not care what she knows or doesn’t know - having her one heartbeat from the Presidency is terrifying!!! Having John McCain’s finger near the “button” is scary enough but with the two of them close to the last eight years and not giving us concrete solutions to problems - I truly shudder for this country if they succeed. And Whoopi - I totally agree with your post - about “Barbie” and “African-Americans”.You are one of the brightest and best when it comes to being vocal about the social issues facing us - and I would vote for you in any office you were running for!!

Whoopi, I think what most posters would like is to hear YOU express your views on The View, the same way you are expressing them on wowOwow. It almost seems as if you can’t be bothered to share how you really feel and that takes away from both yourself and the viewing audience. With regards to your comments about Sarah Palin’s daughter and how her pregnancy is being covered as opposed to how it would be covered if it was one of Baracks daughters - as a white ex-South African, I could not agree with you more. Racism is unfortunately alive and well in the good ole’ US of A.

I would have to agree with everything Whoopi said b/c one of my best friends is white yet born in Africa, so that makes her an African American and its funny the looks she gets from black people when she tells them that…Some really dont get it…I do believe that our society needs to change but its been that way for years and years and years and it never will. I have come in contact with just as many black people who hate white people as I have with white people who hate black people. When I dated a black man I was corned in a public bathroom by two black women who were 3 times bigger than me and my boyfriend had to come into the bathroom and get me…I love to see inter racial couples, whether it is black/white or white/asian, asian/black, whatever…I think its beautiful to see cultures mix, isnt that what America is for? U know in writing this response I am listening to Big N Rich sing “lets take a ride on the Love Train”…it is about what we are talking about on how to make our world right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXA8_93FdKk Let’s stop and think about that…If we just treated others as we wanted to be treated I think that would be great…b/c then it would make up stop & think before we act or speak and a lot of feelings would be spared. I have a friend, the same “african american” friend who never taught her son about color of someone’s skin but when he started school he came home one day very upset b/c in school they taught about color of skin and he was upset that one of his best friends had chocolate skin and wasnt the same as him having white skin…My friend had to sit her 6 yr old down to explain there is no difference and just b/c skin color is different, it doesnt make the person inside different…Its hard to explain that to a 6 yr old. The race card however goes both ways…I have been in situations where a black person will play the race card to their benefit… And also to Whoopi’s comment about when we see a black girl pregnant we think welfare…that is not all of us. My cousin had her first child at 15 and her 2nd at 16 & her 3rd at 18 and her 4th at 20…she was on welfare but used the system correctly. It put her through school so she was able to come off of it when she found a job. There are women/men out there that use our welfar system wrongly, white and black. It does pain me that I have to pay for them to use the system wrongly but it also pains me to see them, being women, having more and more babies for more money each month… I worked in a Pharmacy & this lady came in to pick up her son’s prescription, she was dressed to the nine but she had welfare insurance (not sure the proper name of it) so her son’s rx was only $1…she pulled out a hand ful of money and I mean 100 dollar bills and gave me a $100 so I had to give her back $99….I was a little shocked but all I could just shake my head…in the parking lot she got into a BMW that costs over $100K…………. In the grocery store one day the guy in front of me had 3 kids and they were all dressed nice, nothing too fancy, he pulled out food stamps, nothing wrong with that, but then goes outside and gets into a brand new, 30 day tags, Yukon Denial? Again, makes me wonder? The apartment complex I live in is across the street from a complex where mostly section 8 and welfare men/women live…they all drive nice cars and i mean lexus, bmw, yet they are always outside…no matter what time of the day, they are always out on the street just sitting there…My Fiance’ is a cop so he knows most of them and their back grounds and most are dealing drugs on welfare…That is what I have an issue with…I am leaving the color of their skin out b/c they are all white, black, and hispanic… TO me its wrong to use the system wrongly b/c all it does is hurt the one’s who really need it.