No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

[Kwahati]

LOL, Kwahati. Sounds like even more important than intelligence and beauty is a good sense of humor! ;)

Or I've just explained why I'm presently single...

[Big Wallaby]

WTF? Some people need to see a Proctologist? (sp)

Be careful suggesting that, I think some might find their long-lost head.

Sadly, racism is alive and well. Especially among those who most purport to hate it. I think many protest too much.

If you have to take Maddy's/Tiana's race into account for more than to profile her or draw her image, then you stop looking at her (or any other person or depiction thereof) as a human being, and they are now an object to be catered to or denied only because of their color. No matter which way you do it, it is wrong.

I've said it before, and I will say it again: Why can't we all be human beings? Racially colorblind is a wonderful way to live.

[Kwahati]

Why can't we all be human beings? Racially colorblind is a wonderful way to live.

Because if we "all" stop thinking about race, then the only people thinking about it will be the racists. I hate racism--and "reverse racism"--just as much as you, I'm sure, but you can't just take back the past. I know we weren't here for it so it neither your fault nor mine, but it's simply impossible to say, "okay, start over, we're all on equal footing now" because that's simply not the case. The funding for schools is not equal, the location of dumps and coal burning power plants and other "brown-fields" is not equal, and, ultimately, opportunities are not equal, either. Nobody ever thinks about that the people in power get to decide what's "fair." Our existence is not as morally neutral as we like to think and it's truly the province of the wealthy and the white [as well as those who are able mold themselves to fit in with the wealthy and the white] to opine about how others should feel and what the fairest course of action might be.

Also: I'm a little defensive too, as I am a member of a minority group [it doesn't matter for this conversation which one, but I think you know, BW] and, if there's one thing that Proposition H8 in California showed us, it's that we're all just one vote away from having our rights stripped away from us.