Racism is ridiculous. It always has been. But people have this tendency to be afraid of anyone who's "different" in some obvious outer way from them, and the best way to overcome it is through education and getting to know people who are "different" from oneself.

I would rather see a leader who focuses on the common values that unite all people than one who tries to set himself up as some kind of special advocate for any one sector of the population, whether that sector be racial, religious, class level, or in any way partisan or set apart from the whole people.

If one cannot easily think outside the imaginary box of one's own racial, cultural, religious, or party indentification...then one has become trapped to a great extent INSIDE that box...and that can seriously limit one's freedom of thought and freedom of action as a human being moving freely amongst one humanity...which is what we all are.

Think how ridiculous it would be for brown rabbits, white rabbits, and grey rabbits in nature to divide up and start fighting over their differing colors! That's how ridiculous it is for people to do so.