That's fascinating, Monica. I would never have thought of it.

I agree with you to a large extent, Monica, but there are thousands of Black children in our country who are waiting for adoption, many in our foster care system, who will languish in the system unless adopted by non-Black families. If the Black community wants to see racial purity (oh, boy - am i going to hear it on *that* phrase!) in the adoption process, it needs to step up to the plate and start putting forth more adoptive families for the kids that are in the system waiting for a home. I was a foster parent for many years, and saw many many kids whose birth families had failed them, of all races. My ex and I adopted several kids out of the system; one Caucasian and one Native American. She has since adopted a Black child as well. But in the years that I spent in the system, there was a noticeable dearth of Black foster parents coming into the system.

And Jason, you are 100% correct on Joss - he is a GOD!! Although if you are going to question racial diversity in teen programming, you have to admit that the Scooby Gang was pretty vanilla. Firefly mixed things up a bit more, thankfully.

*Bows his head in memory of Wash*

Sadly, I never got into the whole OC fanwave that rushed through America. I believe, at the time, I was too enamored with Gilmore Girls to care that much about spoiled rich beautiful white kids and their problems. Although, now I watch Gossip Girl... so I have no moral high ground in this category!