4:30pm August 22, 2014

“I remember… a white man actually said to me, “Now, come on, you know you wish you were a white man.” I laughed so hard, I almost cried. I said, “Absolutely not! I cannot imagine having so much power and yet being incapable of using it in a positive way. I dare not even conjecture what it would do to my psyche, to know that the factors that created my supposedly privileged place in society are the very reasons I am prevented from using whatever power I have for good. It must be an awful burden to bear — to know if I tried to use my power in a positive way, my people would laugh at me, scorn me, jeer me and probably disown me. So no, I have no desire to trade places with a white man.”

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