troll - you said "We can legislate against actions but not against thoughts."

Dead right. Well said.

As for the "victim" psychology...it's a very nasty one indeed, and it has led to travesties like the O.J. Simpson trial. Strange that Hollywood almost invariably casts blacks either as:

1. violent criminals and drug dealers

or

2. saintly victims of racial discrimination

or

3. mouthy, obnoxious, and supposedly funny egomaniacs spouting stereotyped ghetto slang (in the sitcoms)

but hardly ever as...real people. I've known a fair number of black people who were quite unlike any of those 3 carboard role models above, thank God.

Those sterotypes are a disservice to blacks and whites alike, and have helped perpetuate the racial problems in America. Hollywood plays the "race card" all the time to pull in big bucks at the box office. It can't help but affect people's perceptions, and not for the better.

- LH