THE people of the United States have proven that race is absolutely irrelevant to the question of who leads the country. The political scene is colour-blind, as it certainly should be.

What it implies is that anyone capable and who has what it takes can be elected to lead, and anyone who promulgates otherwise should be denounced as a racist and a bigot. To state that any particular race has a particular claim or priority to lead is as ludicrous as any racist idea anywhere. Racism is a very cut-anddried issue. It is wrong. It is completely unjustifiable in any for m. Ideas of racial superiority are utterly without basis. Regrettably, such ideas still persist in the 21st century. In our supposedly advanced and progressive age, people still hold on to such outdated b e l i e f s. People who believe that one race is better than another are, by definition, twisted individuals who believe out of rank ignorance. There is no such thing as a kinder, gentler, tolerant racist. Until the scourge of racism is erased from our civilisation, we are fated to see racism on the political scene.

NOEL F. D