It's probably important to point out that the Ku Klux Klan, the World Church of the Creator, and the Aryan Nations are all religious organizations. None of these folks would be terribly helpful in any effort to solve the frustration of racism. Of course, that's just my opinion.

                  It is further my opinion that any attempt to reason with these folks would not be fruitful unless they could be induced to digest factual, scientific information that would prove to them that a superior race is not biologically possible, or at least highly improbable. But when confronted with the truth as I have come to know it, they simply run off into their fairy tale worlds, where they feel snug and cozy, and happily deny reality.

               I think this is basically the way religion works, though it is more extreme for some than others. So if you are really going to get down to the brass-tacks of solving complicated issues like racism, you have to get everyone to the bargaining table in a sober state of mind. I submit that that is going to be very hard to do as long as there are Pat Robertsons and James Dobsons out there telling gullible people that they just need to "trust in the lord," and that facing reality is not realy necessary.

               They can gleefully hang nooses, beat people who look different than themselves, roll around on the floor of the church on Sunday morning, god forgives them, and on Monday morning they are ready to go out and beat somebody else.

               There's no end in sight, as long as there's a built in escape mechanism like religion.