Charles:  please see my response to GBA above.  I can only speak for myself...... I can't change the past....I can't "un-do" what has been done.  I can't change that my ancestors (some of them) were slaveowners.  I can't undue the past Jim Crow America.  I did, along with millions of other Americans, work for the Civil Rights Act, for voter equality, for equal opportunity laws and fair treatment.  I do what I can today to support fair treatment for everyone....including as we've discussed, Ms Shurtz.  No one should have to wait one single moment for equal and fair treatment.  No one should have to tolerate slurs.  No one should have to endure racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc insults from anyone.  You know that, I know that, millions of other "Americans know that.    On the flip side, millions of other 'Americans disagree....they do see you as a "second class" citizen, they see women through the prism of misogynism, they see others as inferior to them....  my regards to you