On 20 Jan 2004 20:54:55 -0800, (James Martinez)
wrote:

Thank you for
turning America into a country where ethnic identity is now paramount.

You raise an interesting point that others have raised and you do it
from an insider's perspective.

Please give some insight into how (or whether) to deal with situations
where people were being denied the right to vote based on race, or
people were put in inferior or undefunded schools based on race or
economic status, or people were denied certain jobs because of race,
religion or gender without developing a sense of racial, economic or
gender identity? In other words, how does a government stop people
from abusing or exploiting people based on group identity without
creating or expanding the idea of a group? Or should they try? Are you
overall glad the government did get involved?