That I am free to like and dislike on a basis other than the color of my skin doesn't even occur to them. Somehow, they completely missed the irony of assuming they could possibly know better than me what it means to be me. These people are the true enemies of freedom, especially freedom for black people. True freedom is the lack of recognition of insurmountable obstacles. Free people know that there are always options and go about finding ways to overcome whatever obstacles they might face, even if one of those obstacles is a 300-year history of racial oppression.
Free people succeed on any playing field.
Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Italians, Arabs, and many blacks have faced hatred and succeeded spectacularly in America without racial preferences. The determining factor of success for individuals from these groups is that they believed that they could overcome any obstacles by controlling their own behavior rather than the behavior of those who hated them. They exercised their freedom by being true to their own ideals and refusing to recognize the limitations that others attempted to put upon them.