[Dianna]

First: we live in America, a blatantly white racist society, where non whites have suffered and continue to suffer injustices by whites and the laws that govern.

Which laws?

You seem to forget the climate that still exists for particularly Black, and many non-white people in regard to any endeavor of achievement, even White women:

White women? Are you insane? I'm a white woman and NO ONE has ever stood in the way of my achieving anything I want to achieve. I and my priorities are the only things that limit me.

[Kelly4023]

Which Laws? Crimminal law: check the racial population of the prison in your state (I live in New York) seems more minorities go to jail. Length of prison term, ect.
Check your 15th amendment; ask your friends who sell real estate if "redlining" still exists....
Oh, How about lending practices? Who gets gouged the worst?
Next:
my insanity: Read
http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/3.19/970912-women.html
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/berg.econ.wage.html
http://www.thestrategycenter.org/AhoraNow/body_affirmative_action.html

You may be determined to achieve, and have "your priorities" in order, but don't forget that you live in a WHITE MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY, and you like me, still earn a percentage of what the white male earns, and do just as much work. That is their priority.

Just read. Nice hearing from you.