Prosperity For Me, Not For Thee (And It's All By Design)

Whites don't even THINK about race (as they use it to isolate blacks)

“If you're talking about conversations about race, most people have had very limited experience in having a meaningful or sustained dialogue about racially sensitive topics in a racially mixed setting. If they talk about race, they talk about it with people who share their own cultural background, more often than not.

And a lot of that has to do with the fact that that's where people live. We still live in a society that has a great deal of social segregation. The opportunity to really engage one another in the kind of dialogue that allows me to share my experiences of the world, and allows you to exchange your experiences of the world, allows me to challenge the assumptions that you might be making based on stereotypes, or let someone question my privilege—that kind of conversation is hard to have. And unless you're really willing to engage and move past the point of discomfort, it's hard to benefit from the conversation.

I don't think we are thinking very clearly.

There's a familiar story which is—well, you've seen this movie: You've got a white character and a black character and usually the black character is eliminated before the movie is over and the white guy comes out at the end as the hero. That's a familiar plot. But in the 2008 election, it had a different ending. And it's an unsettling ending for people who have grown up with the assumption that white people are supposed to be in charge.” 

 - Beverly Tatum, psychology professor, out-going president of Spelman College, and author of the books "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the School Cafeteria?" and "Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation"