New Survivor season - 4 teams split by race

That would be awesome. We'd be the best at killing and eating gross stuff.

Call me racist, but now that you both are Texicans, we don't want y'all on our team.

My license still says Louisiana, so I can still eat roadkill with the best of 'em.

I need to get that changed.

That's fine.  We'll form our own team of Cajun outcasts. 

Or something.

Can you eat roadkill?  Can you make it taste good?

Thats not very nice! The ex-Marylanders and Derek and I will have a team. Since the X-Marylanders can play with possums then they're welcome to play.

I forgot about the possum.  Ok, they're in.

That's redundant. 

Over 2,000 pointless posts in CoJ says otherwise.

I have to agree with Rice here.  The interesting question  is why are we so uncomfortable with this? 

 SPEAK FOR YERSELF, LUKE!  Some of us are DELIGHTED by our new acquisitions. 

Wait.  I'm not originally from Texas either.  Rats.

When people self-segregate by race, it makes me uncomfortable, but there it is, whatever, it exists.

This is an enforced segregation.  The winner gets, what, a million dollars, right?  So, "we will pay you a million dollars to get on national TV as part of some race-segregated game because we're hoping that enough people will want to flirt with archaic some-races-are-better-than-others myths to boost our ratings."  I sincerely hope NO-ONE watches it.  I hope its ratings are in the toilet, because personally I think the concept is.

So you must have felt the same way when they seperated the contestants by gender?  I mean, men are stronger than women right?  Except, as a follower of the show, I seem to recall that the women historically have kicked some serious booty over the men on the show.  

I really think its interesting how many people in the US have become so hyper-sensitive to race issues that something as benign as seperating people according to their race merely for the sake of dividing contestants on a reality show causes such a stir, but if you seperate them by gender, age, educational background, or other differences it is apparently wholly comfortable to watch. 

The truth is that we are all more alike than different and there is no way that something as lame as a reality show is going to add fuel to anyone's fire that thinks otherwise. These people aren't going to think any differently after this show than they did before, regardless of what happens.  I suggest anyone who truly thinks this way to read  "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and then talk to me about how they feel on the subject.

If this bothers people so much, I think those people really need to examine why they are so bothered by this.