At the risk of sounding racist...

...it is SO refreshing to see so many WHITE people in the Billboard Top 10 again!! I love my rap and "urban" music, and you NEED to see my karaoke rendition of Prince's KISS (shockingly authentic), but i'm a white boy who grew up loving Springsteen, Mellencamp, Def Leppard. In recent years, you were often lucky to find ONE white act in the top 10, let alone the top 5. But now you have All-American Rejects, Hinder, The Fray all sitting pretty in the upper tier. As WHITE as WHITE can be. You also have Fergie, whom I detest, but she IS white, so I have to count her. Then you have Justin Timberlake, who COULD be considered black lately. But Justin's white, honest...in a George Michael way, which isn't bad; it's actually one of my favorite kinds of white. Recently, Gwen Stefani has again placed an entry within the top 10 songs of the week. She, too, has a lot of black in her. So there's two kinds of white here...Pure White and Mocha White. I'm an equal fan of both. Hell, one of my favorite artists of all time, Madonna, is Mocha White. When she first started out, before she began making videos, she was often thought to be black when people heard HOLIDAY or EVERYBODY on the radio. She was very savvy about appealing to the black community, knowing it was crucial to making her an across-the-board superstar. Bottom line is that it's just good to see a true mixture of colors and styles again on the charts. For far too long, I felt like Whitey in Compton.