[IronJack]

That being said, I wouldn't make the statement myself because some whites I know have suffered much more from black predudice/racism than I have suffered from white prejudice/racism. Besides, I wouldn't trade being black for anything.

That's an incredibly powerful pair of statements. Care to elaborate?

[mafree]

There's not a lot to elaborate on, especially the latter. I know for fact that some whites have truly been hurt by certain affirmative action programs, whereas I can only think of one or two jobs I may not have gotten just because I'm black, and that's a guess. I still went on and did fine in the job market.

Also, I've never been robbed, assaulted, or threatened physically due to white bigotry, but a lot of whites have suffered that from blacks. In general, whites don't verbally assault blacks in public the way some blacks do it to some whites. A couple of times I had to tell the black person (they were strangers) that they'd gone way over the top and to stop acting that way.

Remember, though, my experiences are just about me personally- don't take that to mean that all blacks have it "made in the shade" on the race thing these days. We do still carry the effects of being slaves and legal second-class citizens for all but the last 35 years of our existence here.