Lyle, Your last response reminds of the old "one drop rule" whereby if a person's heritage include "one drop" of non-white blood, they were "demoted" to the discriminated-against group. Why does it bother you so much that a handful of African-American MAY be racists when there are still so many white-Americans who still boldly express their racism. If one racist is one too many, it seems you should focus your scolding on the largest groups, rather than the insignificantly small group. Let's clean up our own boots before we point to the mud on our neighbor's boots. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org