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[Victoria Delsoul]

But the challenges facing this nation and its darker ethnic group will not be solved by anything other than deep thinking and hard work. Pride comes from accomplishment. Cosmetic nonsense will not get it.

I don't mention race when talking about someone, unless I'm asked about it. Sometimes, due to the nature of the conversation I mention his/her nationality, but not the race. It's not important to me. To me an American is just that --without hyphens.

Identity isn't found in hyphenated names, but in ourselves, in our personalities, and our relation with others. Calling oneself African-American or Italian-America or whatever, means limiting one's identity to that specific group, which dictates patterns or behavior to the rest of the ethnic group... i.e. how to think as an African-America or Spanish-Italian-American, or what to feel about such and such thing, etc. Why limit ourselves to a small group?