"No, life is hard in a racial minority. It just is. I mean, you of all people ought to have some feeling for what that really means. I know you can’t help the way you were born, but still ... I mean, that’s one of the real reasons I want to do this Dutch assignment. There’s been so much white flight from America back into Europe.... My people are there, you know? My roots are there. I think it might help me, somehow."