Political, if only for a moment.

Don't worry, there will be no talk of McCain or Obama here. But I will say, before I go on a rant about race and socioeconomic class, that it is pretty amazing that the United States has voted an African-American man as the next President, and it's historical, no matter who you are.

Unfortunately, it is not the end of our racial problems in the United States, and part of me is afraid that it is the way that this election will be viewed.

I have been to the Superior Court building for 3 separate trials/ceremonies since I have been at Polaris Client Services, and tomorrow will be my fourth. After these three I can pretty much tell you what I will see tomorrow:

I will be one of the only white people in the court room. The other white men and women I will see will be officers of the court, the judge will probably be white, as well as some of the lawyers and the grand marshal. While I am 100% sure there are white men and women on drugs, purchasing sex and selling sex the only people who I will see prosecuted for these crimes tomorrow will be black (and maybe Latino).

Now I don't know the ins and outs of the courts system or the criminal justice system. I have heard people talk about the injustice and racism inherent in the system and that only a few get caught and those few are often times minorities. I know that these problems are big...huge, even, and they cannot be tackled completely by a handful of men and women charged with keeping a city safe, and I'm figuring that these problems are not blatent racism, but rather inherent in the system, but I have never seen the evidence of racism so apparent than when I am sitting in a court room in Washington, DC.

I am not saying that these people who have been caught for these crimes should not be prosecuted and punished for the crimes that they commit...I am not saying that at all...But there is a white Senator who is very close to winning a Senate race in Alaska who was just convicted of 7 felonies. And there is a New York governor who was caught in a prostitution ring who has served no jail time.

You can't tell me that everyone in this country has an equal opportunity.