Racist? That's fine, as long as it's in favor of a minority...

Last night at the Democratic Presidential candidates debate, which over the next fifty years will probably be held the day after general elections, candidate Bill Richardson declared his inherent racism which favors Hispanics. Up until now he's been my favorite candidate, on paper his qualifications blow the others out of the water, and after the last 6 years the White House desperately needs a diplomat. But after his remarks to The Hill, and the debate last night, where he bluntly proclaimed he didn't call for Alberto Gonzales' resignation because he was Hispanic, he's clearly not what we need to unite people.

“The only reason I’m not there is because he’s Hispanic, and I know him and like him,” Richardson said, adding, “It’s because he’s Hispanic. I’m honest."

Why do we excuse racism when it seems to favor the minority, and I'm not talking about affirmative action or quota's which work to stop racism inherit in the system. I'm talking about out right favoritism for a specific race, any race, by declaring actions are less important than skin color, that guilt is demonstrated not by your actions, but rather we must assess punishment based race. Replace Hispanic in his statement with "white" and he would have committed political suicide...

We have to stop this. We have to stop placing blame on a race, we must stop giving privilege simply because of race, we must stop determining guilt based on it, we must stop!