Rascism is alive and well and always will be as long as anyone can tell the difference between races (not distance, but human). Get over it! The whale also has a pea brain, that's just the way it is.

Martin Luther King Jr. was once asked by some insensitive jerk, "Is it true black people run faster, jump higher and dance better than white people?" He answered, "If you are brought up to believe it, it's true." Not sure if he was being TIC to the question, but there you go, fwiw. Does it make life better, or worse? Take the high road and see.

Everyone in my family loves rice. Given a choice between potato and rice I invariably choose rice. My dear, sweet aunt--dead for 45 +/- years now--used to say there must've been some Chinese in our genetics somewhere because we all loved rice so much. Coming from a VIrginia lady born and bred into a family with lines going back over 300 years in Culpeper County, and a family name going back nearly a millennium in England, this is of course just silliness. But it shows how we humans make associations, rightly or wrongly. When hearers take the bait and run with it--with great speed (TIC)--there you go, you got racism.

God bless your heart, Cole Beck. I hope you like rice. And if I have offended any body, I apologize. Please don't go off. There wasn't one racist or offensive word intended. That's not my problem. I'm just trying to point out a truth that has led to centuries of "debate."