Oh, THAT Booker T. But seriously, my dad and grandfather left South Africa during Apartheid. Upon arriving in what was then Zaire, my father fled in the midst of civil war. With nothing but his own guile and perseverance, he went to Canada, and eventually immigrated to the US. He busted his ass and finished both undergrad and grad school, and went on to work for Lockheed Martin.

I think he'd throw me into a wood chipper if I tried to use the "White man keeping me down" liberal logic. I've never interviewed for a job and not been offered the position, and the only time I've had my opinion suppressed in school was when I foolishly took an 'easy A' in a liberal social course and wrote about the emasculation of modern man. The only people keeping me down are the ones Booker talked about, and their fair-skinned, self-guilt enablers. The ones who try to pigeon-hole me as some victim instead of encouraging self-achievement.

Instead of blocking classrooms at Berkeley or demanding that their 18th Century Female Humanities degree is contributive, these whiners could be getting S.T.E.M. degrees, learning trades, or becoming police officers/councilmen/et. al. and inspiring change from within. But I suppose that's wishful thinking.