Somebody on the board wrote, with a lot of voter support by readers, that it is good that there are no white male candidates because Mansbridge was a white male and he hosted the evening news for decades.

Um, hello?

By that logic, medical schools should have shut their doors to white males in, say, 1980 and not re-opened then to white males again until around 2150.

Sorry, folks, but I do not subscribe to your "punish today's younger cohort for elderly yesterday's trends" philosophy...

... indeed, your approach seems shockingly unethical...