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Well, let's see, now...
My house is neighbored on all sides by those of lower-middle to low-income black families. Does that qualify me to speak?
While I was in High School, my family had as guest-resident a highly educated, very large, very black man for 2.5 years. This man had parental authority over me and my siblings. Does this qualify me to speak?
After college in New Orleans, the one man who gave me a decent shot in the workforce was a black son of a sharecropper, with a third-grade education, and an otherwise black work crew. Does this qualify me to speak?
For four years in Atlanta, I lived in an apartment complex whith mixed demographics of the following approximate ratio: 20% White; 40% Black; 35% Latino; 5% Asian. Does this qualify me to speak?
I am going to assume that these above, and others too numerous to mention, meet your exacting standards and do qualify me to speak on this subject.
Race matters in America. It has mattered in the past, and matters now. But it does not matter in the same manner.
WHITE America, as a culture and in general, has made great strides in learning to treat individuals as such, not as organs of a particular breed of Man. BLACK America, also as a culture and in general, has gone very badly in the opposite direction. Where previously it was true that Blacks suffered greatly in their daily lives at the hands of Whites and a racist White culture, now the opposite condition is the prevailing fact. Moreover, since no one may recognize and publicly discuss this fact without being branded as a racist, this situation is creating a great deal of generalized resentment among Whites which will eventually boil over in a terrible and in many ways imprecise and unjust backlash.
Despite my training and my several good and cherished experiences with Blacks whom I hold dear, I have seen so much barbarity and anti-white racism and belligerence that I am now at a point where I am mildly surprised and faintly relieved whenever I meet a polite, articulate, reasonable Black man. That the prevailing Black (popular) culture which has produced this... experienced race-based set of expectations within me has not only been allowed to exist but has been encouraged to spread and flourish offends me deeply.
As I see things, it is this culture among Blacks that needs to be addressed now, as it is the prime source of racial strife in America today.