So I didn't think much of it when I read an article last week about how the shutdown is preventing some families from applying for benefits, and in the article they showed a black woman and her four kids, and several pictures of this woman and her kids at that. That is until this week there is an article about how the SNAP benefit stimulus is decreasing and in THAT article they show lots of pictures of a black woman and her three kids and of course, there are so many evil and hurtful comments below it. It seems racist that every time I get on here and read an article about government benefits, a BLACK family is shown. When in reality, ALL races receive benefits. Not only does it live up to the stereotype that all blacks are on welfare and food stamps, it adds fuel to the racist fire that is always going on in the comments section. Your users are posting pretty horrible and offensive things and someone needs to look into that!

Is the average age on these comment boards 10 and lower? There are way too many rude and racist comments on these boards, and people are complaining about censoring should stop posting those kinds of comments. Those comments usually have nothing to do with the articles and usually bash race, religion, whole ethnic group, political ideologies, and so on. A person who doesn't visit the comment section too often takes a glance at those comments would have a very negative view of Yahoo and might not visit again. Also, please remove the Likes/Unlikes on the comment... as that gives an unfair advantage to a group to hide comments or bring their comment to the top. That's way worse than censoring.

While it is nice to be heard, I do not feel it is necessary to offend whole groups of people when making a comment. For too long, this comment board has been a 'hot bed' for racist and extremely intolerant spatter. I have seen comment boards that will warn you that racial/intolerant comments will not be posted. I like that because I can appreciate a person's opinion without all the venom. If an issue is 'sensitive' (involving race, religion, sexuality, etc.), then I would not mind if the comment section is closed altogether. But when hurtful things are allowed to be posted, it makes me feel that Yahoo! is not very tolerant or forward thinking. I would like to see more 'civility' on the Yahoo! comment board!