Choosing Color for Play?

I read here:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/can-i-play-an-unrated-game-here

 Once you enter live chess, look above the chat box and you will see a button marked "New Game." Click on that button to create a new game challenge.

A box will appear that lets you decide what games you want to play, what color and how long for. The box at the top says easy presets . you can use the drop down box to set times to play –

As you can see in the screenshot, there is no choice for preferred color. Is this available???

Hmmm... Now why can't you choose what color you want to play? Interesting...

Thanks guys!

I had a stronger player do the reverse . . . he wanted to play black so he aborted the games he would have played as white!

I think switching colors is probably the fairest option.