Nikole Churchill

I was talking to a friend the other day and she said her father was, how do you say it in a good way, a racist. We agreed there was no good way to say it because there is nothing good about racism. Well, racism has a new twist. Nikole Churchill is the first winner of the Hampton annual beauty pageant who was not black.

So she wrote a letter to President Barack Obama speculating that her winning the pageant was not "widely accepted" because she is not black. Her letter was on Congress.org, sparking a debate about her skin color and the pageant. Some say she won in the spirit of diversity. Nikole Churchill has raised a lot of controversy.

I would like to see the race name calling stop. We are all one people, whatever the color. I think if Nikole Churchill won her pageant, race should not be an issue. But it appears it is. Whatever your skin color.