I am likely to catch some heat for this, but what the hell. I am white. I do not think I am superior to blacks. There are some great people who are / were black. I think the world of Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Denzel Washington [as far as I know he's a good guy], Ben Carson, and going way back, Scott Joplin - and forgive me for leaving out others. However, for the most part, I just don't trust them [having not met those I mentioned above, I am sure there are exceptions]. I just simply do not trust them. Most of the ones I have been around are loud, antagonistic, or have a chip on their shoulders. I am one of those "live and let live" types. As long as you don't threaten my family, my students or my country, you're fine until you lie to me. It's not that I haven't tried - I have, many times over the course of 59 years. My attitude now that I am in the autumn of my life is that a man is measured by the company he keeps, whether they're black, brown, red, white or blue. Saying that, I believe there are those who are crafted into a mentality that they are victims who cannot accept responsibility for their own actions and find it easy to blame others for their own problems. As soon as more people, including blacks, look in the mirror and shut the fuck up about how life is unfair and all the world is against them, the better off we will all be.