This is a rather "gut-wrenching" little thread of conversation.  May I offer my view: Charles Dalton is a very angry black man who has, (yes, in his opinion) experienced a lifetime of racial discrimination.  Those who respond to his condemnation of "white privilege" and his visceral anger toward "white America" strike back with their own anger.  It's all so very ugly and counterproductive.  Will Charles ever "overcome" his disdain for the "white supremacy" he sees as central to American culture?  Will those of us who were born and have lived "white" ever really understand his feelings?  Is any kind of resolution of this terrible struggle possible?  

We elected a black man President and I, optimistically, though we were "on the way" toward racial harmony....boy, was I ever stupid.  Instead, every racist in the country saw the election as a license to express and act upon "closeted" racism.  (cont)

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