Finally, in Los Angeles, Mr. Bush said, "We are embarrassed by interracial violence and prejudice."

One reason is that the language taps into their followers' anger from eras when most interracial violence was white-on-black.

"There is no record that he has ever been involved in interracial violence," his lawyer, Mr. Deixler, told the court.

One series, Capitol Critters, focused on subjects such as gun control, interracial violence and political corruption.

Then came the state report that harshly criticized his handling of the interracial violence in Crown Heights.

"We are embarrassed by interracial violence and prejudice," the President said at a Los Angeles church on Thursday.

But on our world, supernaturals have lived in harmony with flesh-and-blooders for so many centuries that we have no unapproved interracial violence.

Bolshevism and the threat of revolution became the general explanation for challenges to the social order, even such unrelated events as incidents of interracial violence.

"We are embarrassed by interracial violence and prejudice," he said in a speech that was half sermon, half political message.

He strongly condemned interracial violence, and supported the idea of reconciliation between nations.