I didn't know racism was an ideology we find worth defending in 21st century America, but clearly Rick Smith thinks it is. Mr. Smith preports to support the rights of the "smallest minority," the individual. Contrary to what Mr. Smith thinks, that is what multiculturalism is all about. It is intended to combat the "melting-pot" movement that urges all Americans to be the same being -- the same as other Americans means being like white, Western European descendants. The multicultural movement supports all people, not just the power majority (I don't know if Mr. Smith knows that white, Western European descendants, like himself, I am guessing, will soon no longer be the numerical majority, but they will surely still be the power majority and thus continue to impose their views on minority Americans). Minorities do not have the power to rely on individual rights. If they do, only the rights of the more powerful will be truly realized, at the expense of others' rights (as they have been throughout U.S. history).

It is easy for those in power to support the rights of the individual, it is their rights they are supporting; while those who have no power would loose all hope of equality if individual rights came to rule our nation.

There would be no attempt to equalize the playing field, there would be a social free-for-all where those who already hold power horde it and use it to raise themselves further above the rest of the nation and the world.