content: Just another day for a racist white man in America. I work in healthcare. Today we had a government inspection agency come in to inspect our facility, ostensibly to make sure we were doing our jobs but more accurately, to make sure that they could still justify doing theirs. The woman heading up the inspection looked like Maxine Waters and only offered me the most brief effort in conversation, though I noticed that her discourse with our black staffers was much more animated and embracive. After she checked our individual departments, she met with us as a management team and the early-50's, white male owner of our company ordered in a thoughtful and expensive lunch of crab cakes for us all, save for the inspector. Her lunch was a specially-requested flounder dish that the owner had taken careful consideration to order especially for her. At the end of our meal together, there were three separate conversations going at once at the large conference table when suddenly, two discussions broke off, at which point the only topic on the table, so to speak, was between four black women. They were talking about racism and that you don't realize how bad it is until you move out of a black community. I really couldn't believe (but I really could) that out of all the topics you could discuss during such an affair, you would choose to discuss racism, especially amongst such company. Here they were, ostensibly professional, solidly middle-class black people in no way oppressed by "racist America", in a building built by the sweat and blood of a white man who employs them and pays for their flounder and crab cake lunch and they're in here complaining about such a flimsy, trifling non-issue, knowingly discounting the few white people at the table from the conversation. It really is amazing how in discussing healthcare issues, they ended up discussing racism. Not black-on-black crime or the welfare system that keeps the black community ignorantly enslaved to the state or the fact that 77% of black children are born to single mothers or the astoundingly high rates of obesity in the black community and the myriad health problems that arise from such awful choices or any number of issues confronting the black community over which they have some measure of control. Nope, just racism. That's all it ever is.