A reader writes, regarding the color of cynicism:

Let me tell you about the “color” of my family. I have four children. The first two are our “genetic” children (both boys ages 23 and 21). The next two (both girls) were adopted. Each of the girls has one birth parent who was black and one who was white. They are bi-racial. They have been raised in a family with white parents and brothers but themselves could, by their looks, be either black, Polynesian, or Hispanic. My youngest son’s wife is white. My oldest son will (next week) marry a young woman who emigrated from Cambodia when she was two. I expect to have grandchildren whose looks run the gamut from white to “sort of black” to “sort of Southeast Asian”. We will love them all – whatever their color or abilities. My family is the face of the American future. The racist assumption of pigmentation uber alles, codified into law this week by the Supreme Court, has no place in our family. Alas, it seems to be the continued obsession gripping those who live in the rarified atmosphere of federal courts and academia. By their actions they demonstrate how little they know of the country they presume to judge.