Off-Topic Somewhat: I have driven on the road Susan Smith took to John D. Long Lake (I live in SC) and saw the "starting point" for her car. She had a looonnnnggg drive from the "starting point" to the end. You get on this one road and you have turn off of that road and there's still a ways to go. It was a good 45 minutes or so drive for her. 45 minutes to really think about what she was going to do.

Along the lines with Susan Smith, I don't think it was a racial issue. I believe it was just a crazy woman doing something unimagineable. She had to think of a description of someone that didn't look like any of the people in Union because everyone knows everyone in Union.

With OJ Simpson, I believe he was the one that planned the whole entire crime and hired someone to commit the murder. He has bad knees from his football career. Granted, he's strong enough to beat someone up, but the way the prosecution described the crime scene, I don't believe he could have ran fast enough or been nimble enough to climb anything to get out of sight.

I don't identify anyone by their race. I don't know many people that do identify someone by his or her race, and I know a lot of people. I also live in the Southeast, which still has the stigma of having racial issues. Granted, there are areas in the Southeast that are racially-charged areas. Every geographic area of the United States has somewhere that has groups of races which don't get along or they have some kind of preconceived notion about another's race or gender. Other races have precconceived notion about white people, and so on and so on.

I identify someone by their character and personality and intelligence. I don't care what gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation you are. If you have the qualities I seek in a friend, then, so be it . . . let's be friends and go on with our lives. I may be one of the few people that have that attitude. I just see people as people. If I were hiring someone, I am not going to hire you because of your gender or race. I will hire you because you have the qualities and qualifications for the position and the company.