A case that has caused a lot of debate in the US recently concerns one Prof. Gates, an African American, who found himself unable to open his front door. A woman saw him fumbling with the key and called the police who arrested him despite the professor showing the officer his identity. The professor accused the police of being racist although a black officer said that the professor over reacted and that he would have done the same thing. Even though they have a black president African Americans feel that they are not respected by the whites. It may be because Africans treat each other worse all across Africa. You look across the huge continent and all you see is famine, filth, corruption, murder and mayhem. People judge you by how your politicians and senior civil servants behave and how they treat their own countrymen. An example was the digustingly shameless footlicking that was on show when Hillary Clinton visited India. The way every idiot was fawning on her was cringe making. Worse is on show in Nepal where a British actress, Joanna Lumley, is being called a goddess because she campaigned for retired Gurkha soldiers to be allowed to stay in Britain. When the Prime Minister thanked her for helping his own people settle in Britain he is, in effect, saying that Nepal is dung heap of a country. Contrast that with the way Israeli leaders are dealing with Secretary of Defence, Gates, and the middle east envoy, Mitchell, visiting the country and you know why jews have survived centuries of persecution to be so powerful today.