Bias is universal

Here is another simple article that is indicative of the problem.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/05/roland.martin.05.05/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Roland Martin comes across as totally biased in this article. To be honest, his arguments seem a bit contrived. He mentions that several white preachers (e.g. Pat Robertson) who shouldn't be allowed to have any influence because of how Reverend Wright has been treated. I wouldn't have a problem with his assessment except the examples that he cites from American-hating preachers don't include anything from Pat Robertson. Now, before you make any judgements, I do kind of think that Pat Robertson often (read most of the time) goes too far. But saying that Pat Robertson shouldn't have access to American Policticians because of what Rod Parsley said is like saying Franklin D. Roosevelt is a bad man because he, like Mussolini, was the leader of a country.

The bigger issue here is how to address the problem. Why can't we all be American? Why does color, race or ethnicity play such a large part in who me are and how we are percieved? More importantly, why does it play such a large role in how other people perceive us (you, me and all of us)? I wish there was an easy answer to any of those questions.