I could be wrong, now -- but I don't think so!

Did you know that the raid on the polygamist compound in El Dorado, Texas, was a racist thing? Well, according to Larry Riel who had a letter to the editor printed in today's Dallas Morning News, it is.

You see, all the women and children removed from the compound are white. Larry says that the "Dallas inner-city neighborhoods are overwhelmed with black and Hispanic mothers who, in many cases, have two or more children before they are 18."

I guess Larry is saying that authorities don't care if teenagers have babies if they are black. But Larry seems to be missing some important differences here.

1) The white children in the compound are being forced into pseudo-marriages against their will -- most of the inner-city teenagers (however immature, wrong, and foolish their choice) choose to have sex and babies.

2) The white children in the compound are prisoners -- most of the inner-city teenagers have no supervision at all.

3) The white children in the compound are home-schooled -- most of the inner-city teenagers have other educational opportunities.

4) The white children in the compound are being raped by men much older than they -- most of the inner-city teenagers are having sex with other teenagers.

5) The white children in the compound are being told they will go to hell if they don't stay sweet and do whatever their "husbands" and "elders" tell them to; in short, they are enslaved -- most of the inner-city teenagers, despite all their rhetoric, have no concept of what slavery is.

If the situation were reversed, and authorities went into the inner-cities and removed 400 children, I'm quite certain Larry would again be playing the old race card. "Why hasn't something been done about those polygamist enclaves out there? Why are the authorities picking on the inner-city kids? It's because those polygamist enclaves are white!" To quote one of my favorite TV series theme songs, "I could be wrong, now -- but I don't think so!"