Thanks! V. Corso: Well said. Stuart: Thank you for your comment. Your last paragraph is powerful. just Phyllis: I hope your neighbor thinks long and hard about his revelation. That McConnell strategy has cost this nation more than it cares to know. Joanie: Just like no other President would have been interrupted during his State of the Union address to hear "You lie!" from the audience. Chicken Maaan: Still, it had to have been disappointing. It has been for me. David: LOL! I'm sure you've had an interesting time with that last name! Z: The question isn't whether there is diversity in the population -- there clearly is. The question is how those languages and skin shades are regarded by the owners and employees of all those mall businesses. That's the part that is easy to overlook. Lezlie, I didn't tell you or the president to identify as "white," but I do protest when people like you try to force a "black" identity on those who are NOT black (mixed white or otherwise) by claiming or implying that there is some kind of "one drop" law that legally requires people to identify as "black" based on "one drop." I notice that you never pull that nonsense on Hispanics, who have "drops" aplenty of the dreaded "black blood." It's YOU who should be ashamed of yourself for promoting and glorifying a doctrine based on the presumed super-inferiority of the ancestry you claim to champion. Great post... A few years ago I