I want to believe that we live in a country where what matters is not the color of one's skin, nor the class they were born in, but instead the content of their character.  Let's set the record straight before we start with the story I have to tell.  I'm white as the snow, but what I know is that the things going on back home aren't right.  Unless we stand together, we'll fall apart.

Middletown is Muncie, Indiana. My home.  There's trouble back home right now.

"Vicious, closet racism."

Those were the words of Hurley Goodall on Friday night as he gathered with about 100 other local residents, most of them black, to speak out against what they say is an unnecessary and unfair Republican investigation of voting in Precinct 18, a predominantly black precinct.