"You said it, Thrasher!

How many black contributors and staffers are in fact employed at Salon?" -- Anon.

Who knows? There was Debra whats-er-name, but she was just a contributor and the only way I knew she was black is because she couldn't go three sentences without throwing it in everybody's face like a bloody rag.

How about it Thrasher? You're a pretty good writer when you're not being a black racist. Why don't you write to Joan and the publisher and get yourself hired instead of bitching about how racist Salon is?

Kamiya is Japanese-American. He manages somehow to write about a wide area of topics not related to his racial heritage.

What if I were to demand to know how many Jews are employed by Salon and if there are none, why not?

Hey, who is this "James Hannaham" guy anyway? Is he a Whitey? Is he Irish? Sure sounds like Irish don't he? "Hannaham." I'll bet he's a drunk who starts singing "Danny Boy" and crying in his Bushmills. His house smells like corned beef and cabbage.

Assumptions. Dangerous, prejudicial assumptions.

"Are whites responsible for their conscious racism?" Why, of COURSE they are!

You see, in America, only Caucasian people can be racists. Or so the current paradigm suggests.

In this paradigm, there must be a victim and a perpetrator. Guess who is which one?

Who is the bigger racist, David Duke, Tom Tancredo, or Jesse Jackson? How about Hector Carrion? Never heard of him? I'm not surprised. That's the pseudonym of some Mexican-American racist who runs a web site for the "Aztlan Separatist Movement," an organization that believes in the racial superiority of La Raza, "The Race," of the mestizo blend of Spanish and American Natives who once roamed what is now the Southwestern U.S. This idiot encourages his lunatic fringe that they ought to take it back by force if necessary.

The answer to the question is: All of the above.

Racism knows no boundaries, and no culture is free of its prejudices. Even in a country as small as Belgium, there are people who would fight to the death over whether Flemish or French should be the national language. The Japanese people? Oh, don't get me started! There are hotels in Japan where Caucasians are not allowed because they might "infect" the pure Japanese guests. In modern Chile, a country that is constantly boasting about their multiculturalism, the Mapuche native people get run off the streets and get worse treatment than our homeless. Serbs and Croats, Tutsis and Hutus, I can't tell the difference, but apparently they can, because they love to kill each other. Israelis and Arabs? Oh man! There is no end to it.

Racism is ignorance, and ignorance is racism, and both ignorance and racism are in abundance in every culture on this earth.

Isn't it about time that the rhetoric be made neutral? Isn't it about time that other races and cultures besides European Caucasians be held to account? Or are we too afraid of being labeled racist ourselves when we refuse to play this "Victim-Perpetrator" game?