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During Legend’s speech Oprah Winfrey was crying. I don’t understand why these millionaires and billionaires bite into the apple of their ancestors’ grief. Legend and Oprah suffered nothing. Are they so greedy that they want fortunes simultaneously with the pride of being trounced-on-slaves?

... Joe is an 82-year-old black man, a very successful retired computer engineer. He owns homes in the most affluent areas of this city.... Joe is a forceful man who has assumed the role of a leader among our common acquaintance.Joe is obsessed with white racism, and because he is black, people acquiesce to him in ways they would not for a white man. Regardless of the setting, Joe will change the topic to excoriate white people for their racism.......Despite being raised in a middle-class family..., when Joe talks to young people, he does not ask them about their goals;...

The situation in Cambridge, Mass., surrounding Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest has been analyzed and reanalyzed from nearly every angle. The character of police Sgt. James Crowley has been dragged through the mud, then polished, then dragged through the mud again. But Gates has, for the most part, escaped scrutiny. At worst, he has been described as a racialist, a man who sees every aspect of American life through the lens of ethnicity. At best, he has been described (by racialist and full-fledged polysyllable-babbling idiot Michael Eric Dyson) as the "Rosa Parks of racial profiling.” But Gates is more...