It's a shame that good people feel that way about themselves. I wish there was an easy way to change it. It's been nearly 150 years since the slavery thing and we should be over it by now. But I feel that liberals are responsible in large part for many of the racial issues we have today. Their "affirmative action" and the resulting hiring quotas that come with it continue to perpetuate racial tension, especially when a better qualified white person is passed over for a job in order for a hiring quota to be made. The liberals continue to push a welfare state which basically traps people (many of them blacks) into government dependency which carries on generation to generation. The liberals continue to push different standards for black people, for example, requiring a higher score for a white person (such as on a civil exam) than for a black person. This inexcusable practice sends the message that black people are not as smart as white people so hey, let's lower the scores for them so that they don't have to do as well as a white guy. What an insult!
We are not going to end racism in this country until we treat everybody equally. The liberals absolutely do not want to do this, perhaps out of fear that if a lot of blacks become successful, they might turn into conservatives.
As Sowell points out, if 10 whites are passed over to give one black the job, you have ten who feel aggrieved even tho only one could have had the job.
Some of the black guys I've worked with have told me about their frustration with being routinely followed around stores by security people. It's gotta suck when you are treated like a two bit shoplifter when you are actually an Army Lietenant Colonel and war veteran (as one of the guys who relayed his woes to me is).