Not Just the Color of Your Skin

I had actually planned to write something on Senator Reid’s painful, but truthful analysis of American politics regarding President Obama’s skin color and dialect over the weekend. But every time I’d start, I would stop within ten minutes. Why? Because to put it simply, the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. I wish it weren’t true, but skin color (not race) matters in American society and the closer one is to Northern European white, the easier acceptance is. That applies to Asians, Hispanics or anyone else. And nothing I’d write would or could change that in this society. We are not color-blind, but our collective tolerance has grown considerably in the last 50 years.