Exactly! There are some privileged members of the old guard, in part because of the way the site is constructed. If you want your posts to be seen, it pays to cultivate the favor of people with huge followings. Some of the elders are very decent people. Some of them are narrow-minded egotists. Why should this be any different from the rest of world? Maybe it should -- but it isn't. I still think you overreached a little in your rhetoric, but you did hit a nerve. You have, it appears, the same view of racism that I have. I find that very refreshing. It both amuses me and disgusts me that, by some people's standards, I'm probably a racist. In other words, I don't think "that offends me!" - constitutes a knockdown argument. If a person dislikes your genetics, they're a racist. If they don't want to surrender to your culture -- that is quite another matter. I think we share common minority status -- we're skeptics.