Steve, I do not need to be right or correct in my viewpoints to comment here as you say..Let me be as articulate as possible in my response. While I agree that the Black experience and White experience is very different for us but we now live in an age for the past 50 years since the civil rights era where many opportunities for Blacks to advance themselves exist and many have taken that path..The problem with this well written and thought provoking piece is it lacks scope and is written from a black women’s perspective that seems to indict all white america..That is total nonsense and terribly unfair and worse yet its very deceptive in its conclusions…You and I both are being victimized on a daily basis by a racist media agenda that is more about preventing people like us from being friends and forcing us into our safe and “colored” corners all for the sake of selling advertising dollars and keeping our elected officials making the same repetitive speeches year after year and re-electing them so they can continue the status quo. We as a society share the blame in buying into and perpetuating this cycle of hatred but we both could do alot better in not validating the mistakes of the past as the causes for our own troubles in the present….A very bitter lesson to learn…I as I am certain you want a bright future for my family and my nation and not the one that the media seems to determined to push on us.