American or African American?

The problem I tend to have is when minorities who are normally complaining about how they are not treated like everyone else start insulating themselves. For example, when you hear a sound byte from Joe So-and-so, "spokesman for the black community" or "for the Latin community" etc. Why are they special? Why do they get their own community if they want to be treated like everyone else? I see stuff all the time for Black Pride, Brown Pride, Purple Pride... why can't it just be American Pride?

The point is, the only way we will truly get rid of any traces of racism in this country is to stop using these special denominators and teach our kids to not even see that skin color/facial features are a reason to single someone out. I've seen this in young children -- they will have no idea that someone who doesn't look like them is in any way different unless someone tells them that they are different. To them, they are all just kids.

QFT'd, and I like your sig