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willravel, this isn't meant for you, but maybe someone else who needs to hear it will benefit.

If you talk to black people who you know, if you ask them how it feels, what they are going through....experiencing, they'll tell you. I have a friend who enjoys a business partnership with a black man. Every, I mean every time he visits her in her white northern Westchester, NY suburban neighborhood, he gets pulled over by a white local cop and asked what he's doing and where he is going.

He handles the sales end of their partnership, because he is the one with the disarming personality. My friend says that when white people meet him at the door for the first time, they are afraid to let him come through it, and at the end of their meeting with him, they are reluctant to let it end and say good bye to him.

The man lives and works in a white world, but he is not accepted in it.

I see on this thread and on others recently and on older threads where objections to affirmative action were posted, a resentment that seems based on the idea that something is being taken away from those objecting, if non white males are given equal or extra equal opportunity.

To use my oft relied on pro baseball example, when one slot was given on a team to Jackie Robinson, there was one less slot, until the next league expansion, for yet another white player. All the slots, all the opportunities had been reserved for white players.

The exclusive white opportunity was held by force. Whites "only" weren't entitled to every team slot. It was so because of a fucking distortion, conceived and maintained at the point of a gun, a shackle, chain, leg iron, a lynching rope, reinforced by the language in the US Constitution, itself.

If you ask a black friend how it's going, what it was like for them, growing up, and you share your life story and experience, and you have the "take" on how things are....along the lines of my "baseball" analogy, the black people who you know, will sense it, and they'll talk to you.

If you operate as if "every slot", every opportunity is naturally ordained for whites..men..was and always has been, and blacks, women, or anybody other than white men, will just have to suck it up and find a way to break in...to take one of those "white man slots" for themselves....like Jackie Robinson did, people who you try to talk to, will sense that, too.

Nothing is being taken way from you pan, Ustwo.... that wasn't rightfully available to you. It's just that for forever in this country, all the slots were pretty much reserved for white men, and they got too used to it.

But, it wasn't right....it was a distortion, maintained by local cops, with guns, dogs, firehoses, and by every white person who rode on or drove a bus!

Dr. King said, if you get your back up straight, nobody can ride on it. That advice wasn't meant for you if you are a white man....chances are you've been riding all of your life.