[Razz Barry]

I have no dog in this hunt or personal favorites in the campaign - only the fervent hope that the electorate there will reject ghettoized thinking when it comes to weighing the qualifications of candidates who seek to represent it in Congress. Perhaps, eventually, we can come to see race as we regard eye color - that is, as nothing about which to be proud or discriminating.

I see nothing wrong with being proud of your race, eye color or even gender.

[John Valentine]

Well, everone needs SOMETHING to be proud of, and if it can't be achievement, success, intelligence or character, it might as well be race, eye color or gender.

Why not sock color?

[angry wombat]

Maybe "proud" is not quite the right word. I quite like my skin color, eye color and gender, but I don't see why I should be proud of something that came down to chance.

[Bender2]

Re: "I see nothing wrong with being proud of your race, eye color or even gender."

That's fine, however, being a near 60-year old, blue-eyed, red-headed, white guy, I find myself being in the only minority where I haven't any rights at all if you listen to the Liberal Democrats...