....”I suggest they live in those communities for some time and then they might wake up”......
I stayed with a black family for about three months when I was relocating. He is a successful football coach and she had her own business, also successful.
We had many discussions over the race issues they faced and how they overcome them, and how they didn’t as well. But interesting was their very real “fear” of being disappointed as they furthered themselves in life, that once people were aware they were black ‘the deals’ undertaken wouldn’t go through.......with some effort they began taking the “attitude” that race is no different than any other excuse or reason one might use to back out of a deal and began treating the rejection with a “new” mindset. They overcame their own attitudes that their fears were getting in the way.
In this day and age I think for a black person to come out and state this is now about race and you can get where you want based on your skills and hard work is being very brave as many do not want to hear that message.