[Cadaverous Pallor]

Alex, I tend to agree with you. In a perfect world, people should be able to do business with whomever they want. I used to be fully in that camp, including "I should be able to sell a home to whomever I want" and "I should be able to hire whomever I want". And like you said, such practices should be open so that I can take my business away from racist sellers/buyers.

But the truth is that without Big Brother looking over the shoulders of the prejudiced idiots of this country, things don't change. I look at the pictures of people screaming and trying to attack Ruby Bridges, only 40 years ago, and I shudder. Those people were not going to change unless Big Brother forced them to.

I HATE affirmative action, and I'd love to see it go away, but that's because I live in liberal Southern California. Outside of my bubble there are still racist bastards that will not give people of other races a chance. I don't know what to do about it though. Affirmative action is a fcked up solution, the same way many of our "solutions" suck.

As for profiling....jeez, what a can of worms that is.