Phil Schwadel would like to have one human believe he or she is inferior to another because of something a superficial as the color of one's skin. He states "Minorities do not have the power to rely on individual right." Why is that?

Rick Smith does not defend racism. He defends an individual's right to think for oneself and an individual's right to be judged on the content of that individual and not by some checked box on a college application form.

I agree with Mr. Smith and whole-heartedly disagree with Mr. Schwadel's statement. The argument should not be about labeling people as racist and categorizing them into groups. It should be about solving a very real problem. One solution or supposed solution is the way things are being done now with the current multicultural push. Another possibility has been presented for solving racism that involves judging people as individuals.

If Schwadel's goal is for a colorblind society and Mr. Smith's is for a colorblind society, how can Mr. Smith be called a racist? Anything that judges people by their race is racist. It's as simple as that. If a college uses one's race as criteria for acceptance, it is being racist. If a Klansman judges someone by the color of his skin, he is being racist.

What Mr. Schwadel supports is a varied form of racism. If people were judged solely as individuals, were expected to act as individuals and were not judged by some group that they have been assigned to, then I believe that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream for a society that judges people based on character could and would be a reality.