You want an example of rampant racism? Check out the rift between light skinned and dark skinned blacks. Or blacks vs. Koreans. Blacks vs. Hispanics. If you take the time to look, most racism seems to exist between blacks and any other non-black group. This isn't a scientific study, just a trend I've noticed.

First of all, make absolutely **NO** mistake. Racism and discrimination *ARE* a huge problem still.

But something REALLY important to remember is that not everything done in the name of "Racial Equality" is promoting or even looking in the same direction as Equality.

I'd like to pop forth another example if I may:

Let us take the Gender Equality movement, AKA the Feminist Movement. HUGE leaps and bounds were made in terms of progress.

Then something happened. Feminism is STILL a valid issue, albeight not the 2-mile schizm it used to be. However, the local Feminist groups seem to have lost sight of the goal. The most vocal of our "Womyns" groups in Winnipeg seem to have nothing better to do with their time than bicker about the spelling of "woman" (Sorry, "womYn"), and slam movies for objectifying women.

Does this mean that feminism is irrelevant? Certainly not. However, this behavior is counter-productive; It moves attention away from the REAL issues, and promotes a sense that since all the real issues are done, all they have left is to become a public nuiscance.

It's the SAME thing with the race movement. Always has been. There are plenty of people fighting for TRUE equality. And you *NEVER* hear about them. Why? Because they are seeking to NORMALIZE society. And you don't do that with huge press coverage or loud noises. Instead, you have people who are acting out of their own agendas, and simply "using the race card" to forward it. It is deplorable. At the very least it destroys the credibility of the real tolerance movement.

And that is what it's about: TOLERANCE. Not acceptance. Nobody can make anyone like somebody else. But they deserve mutual respect.

Yes, a white, South African immigrant would definitely be exempt. You know it and I know it. Don't sit here and pretend like racism flows one way and don't pretend like you don't know whom the African Heritage Fund is for.