Maybe there's hope for us yet

I am not going to go as far as to say that racism and sexism are dead in this country -- one only has to read the reaction from people in Dallas to the idea of re-naming Industrial Boulevard after Cesar Chavez to know that racism is alive and well here -- but here's a statistic that passed my way today that I found encouraging. During the recently completed primary election process, more than 35 million Americans voted for either senators Barach Obama or Hillary Clinton and that's more than voted for all the white males who ran -- in both parties -- combined.