This season of Survivor Cook Islands the tribes were divided by race. Tribes of five were sectioned off into a team of Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, White Americans and Black Americans.

And as ways go this caused some sponsors to pull out - hardly any others to jump on board and whole slew of publicity was stirred up - good and bad (and indifferent). As for me, I was really "who cares" "so what" about it. I'm a reality junk TV fiend. It doesn't take much thought behind a show to make me happy (Being Bobby Brown - Flavor of Love - Amazing Race) I Tivo it all. I hate to admit this, but I don't care what you show me just give me drama. I'm shallow like that.

But here's the thing with Survivor - the division by race thing only lasted 2 episodes and then the tribes were melted together. And I got to tell you I'm having a real Halleluiah moment because this is the first time in reality show history that the cast is majority minority!!!

2 people went home - 1 Black and 1 Hispanic - but that still left 4 Blacks - 4 Hispanics - 5 Asians and 5 whites. See, the big complaint (self included) of reality shows is only 1 or 2 Blacks/minorities make the cut. And usually the most flamboyant/militant/angry/confused Blacks are selected to rep the race (or at least editing cuts it to make it look that way).

Why is this? Show producers would say because America is majority White and minorities still make up a small percentage of the population - casting reflects the American population.

Now let me jump to another point (simply because this is the way my mind works) - A friend of mine (Abdul Ali) said something interesting to me the other day. He goes to Howard University but before that he went to a majority White school.  At that school - being Black was a big part of your identity. You hung out with other people or was expected to like other students simply because they were black like you - but now that he's at Howard and everyone is Black mostly - you have to find other ways to define people. Simply - I like you because you Black too doesn't cut it. The other students are now examines a little deeper and defined a little more colorful.

And that's exactly what I have to do watching this season of Survivor. I can no longer root for the Black "one" or the Hispanic "one" or the Asian "one" or the "one" who's the most brown - Hell, most of them fit that bill. Now for the first time in reality show history (Flavor of Love doesn't count) I have to base who I root for on gamesmanship, integrity, personality - the content of their character - - and that is what I think Martin Luther King, Jr could have been dreaming about - right?

I wonder - if White people across America are now rooting for the White "one"?