I spent a lot of time thinking this weekend about racism in our country and our world.  Racism is and always has been a scourge of mankind.  However, I don’t think racism has anything to do with race anymore.  I think it is all about skin color.  For me, that makes it an even worse sin if that’s even possible.  In one of histories worst cases of racism, the Nazis had to force Jews to wear the star of David.  Why?  Because they weren’t able to distinguish them entirely by skin color and changing one’s name from a Jewish sounding name to a more European sounding one was also an option for Jews wishing to escape persecution.  So, the Nazi’s made Jewish citizens wear the star of David.  This brings us to the interesting case of Presidential candidate, Barack Obama.  Obama is the son of a caucasian mother and a Kenyan father.  To claim that Obama would be the first African-American president is only half true.  But, he is considered the first because he looks African-American.  There are millions of people prepared to vote for and against Barack Obama based solely on his skin color.  There are also millions of people prepared to vote for and against John McCain because of his skin color.  I believe that they are all wrong to do this.  It’s bad enough to live in a world where race is a factor in anything because we are all created equal in the eyes of God.  It’s even worse to live in a world where skin color is factor.   You can never judge a book by its cover and you can never judge a person’s race or character by their skin color.  I think racism is dying a slow death.  Unfortunately, Skinism is alive and well. What are we going to do to defeat it?