Reply #30: Your post is Exhibit A

[beaconess]

It's very sad that you are so unknowledgeable about this issue that you would actually point to Oprah, Martha Stewart and Madame Walker as "proof" that blacks and women have not been held back by racism and sexism in America

Yet, you are so blind to the very real obstacles faced by women and minorities that you seem to truly believe that noting the existence of racism and sexism is in itself racism and sexism.

I'm sure you mean well and truly believe what you're saying, but your view that minorities and women are to blame for the grossly disproportionate advantages that white men have always enjoyed, enforced and fought to maintain (since you seem to believe that women and minorities are themselves to blame for not achieving what millions of white men and three women have accomplished) is exactly the attitude I was pointing out in my post.