“I try to be open and accepting but I
get so confused because blacks still
don’t trust me.” Take it easy, Whitey.
You’ve got a lot to learn about social
and cultural dynamics and systems theory

while you sit in the comfort of your
nice home in your nice neighborhood
surrounded by nice, white folk who all
feel fairly comfortable with each other
when you’all aren’t squabbling — some

with whom you might have gone to high
school and college; maybe a relative
or two, fellow church goers, kids in
the Cub Scouts, Webelos, Boy and Girl
Scouts, white schools, soccer, little

league baseball, football, swimming
and the uber-white gymnastics club
all while blacks and Hispanics make
do in the ghetto and barrio, but it
is nice that you, individually, are

trying not to be a racist and you
would like to be able to say that
some of your best friends are…but
you can’t because you are in the
dominant, power structure and you

sure as hell don’t want to give that
up and never ever should be expected
to relinquish anything because you
have earned it and when you think
about it, it’s a bit presumptuous

to cave in to the demands of those
minorities, isn’t it? Who exactly
do they think they are? Maybe they
should take a whole lot more re-
sponsibility for their situation?

See how it goes, Whitey?