of attracting votes. It needs to be addressed out of moral conviction, and out of compassion and sheer humanity. You are probably right in saying that the issue of race won't be overcome any time soon, and it certainly won't be overcome as long as whites and blacks end up segregating themselves from each other. I saw a report on TV a couple of years ago (I can't recall where) about the fact that whites and blacks rarely interact with each other on a day to day basis. I think the report was about Philly, but it could have been about anywhere. America today is segregated in so many ways. Blacks live in one part of town, whites in another. Schools are still largely divided into predominantly white and predominantly black schools. We see black churches and white churches. As long as we all see each other as strangers that are not part of our day to day existence, racism will continue to flourish in this country. How do we solve that? I don't know, but I DO know that the situation we live in today isn't going to fix the matter.