These codes are cumbersome. Why can't we just talk like normal people do? Oh well, it's interesting. Sociology, Comte, cultural Marxism; the rules always change with Marx.

About being token. You ever hear of Guy Scott?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/scott-president-interim-zambia-sata-death

It's kind of a funny story. I think it could only happen in Africa though. The institutional racism of America in the eyes of whites has gone the other way for several decades, the only way to finally get past it would have to have a rural genocide against whites.

I know I'm rambling here, but indulge me.

Sometimes I read articles about how white something is, like the ELCA. It's called the most white church in America. The governing body tells it's flock that racism is a problem in the ELCA.

I may be out of line here from a sociological perspective but, Lutherans came from Germany and Scandinavian countries. The immigrated way up north mostly in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Scandinavians and Germans for the most part were continental European who enhanced in almost no colonial activity. (The Germans did for a brief period in the late 1800's).

How can lack of African or Latino members in a church be racist when you'd be hard pressed to find Africans or Latinos in places like Montana, Idaho, Wisconson, the Dakotas, et al; Furthermore, if the main thrust of Northern European immigrants came from countries that didn't engage in much colonialism if at all and settled in America in the Guilded Age to a largely uninhabited area of the country, how could one reasonably expect there to be much diversity?