SURVIVOR RACES TO CONTROVERSY

Survivor this season is separating the teams by race.

Yeah, you can guess what’s happening.

People are flipping out. A New York City Councilman wants CBS to pull the show. It seems he feels

"The idea of having a battle of the races is preposterous," City Councilman John Liu said Thursday. "How could anybody be so desperate for ratings?"

Really, does he feel that same way when teams are separated by sex? Hell’s Kitchen just ended and the teams were boys against girls. Where was he outrage there? How does Mr. Liu feel about the Congressional Black Caucus? There’s a club where people who aren’t the "correct" color can’t join. What about the University of Michigan Law School admission’s policy, where people of the “right” color get an extra boost? Mr. Liu? Anything? Anything?

People are outraged by this because they want to be. Freely joining a competition where teams are separated by sex or race or age or anything is not going to

“encourage racial division and promote negative typecasts.”

Get over yourself, Mr. Liu.