David,

You sound like a learned person, howeven, I must agree with CarolC that yer sweeping generializations do not help yer position here but hinder it... The topic of this thread is ending racisim and you, IMO, are doing everything that the power stucture expects of its good little foot soldiers in throwing more gasoline on the fire...

Let'as go back to the example I pointed out in Matthew where Jesus tells the disciples that only thru Him can they know the Father (God). Well, lets turn the tables. What if someone of Islamic faith were to tell you that only thru Mohammed could you know Ala (God). Now this may seem to you to be a non-issue but when you turn the tables around and try to emphathize with someone who you are telling has no ability to have a relationship with God because your relgion is better than his then all you are doing is perpitrating a system of conflict and mistrust and misunderstanding...

If you can't see this point then I can't see that you are capable of being anyone I'd feel has any concrete motivation to end racism...

Peace

Bobert