The perspective was interesting. As is Wise, I am also Jewish, but my perceptions of Black-America were completely different from his (I grew up in the american Northeast). I know saying people are colorblind to race is taboo and thought to be disingenuous, but I can honestly say I am colorblind to it. I think nothing of skin color. I rate everyone on the same criteria, friendliness, neatness, honesty, integrity, loyalty. I know we all have different backgrounds, and I take that into consideration. The other book I mentioned was laughable (if not embarrassing) to me. You don't have to apologize to anyone because of an honest mistake. If someone says something offensive to me about Judaism because they didn't understand, that's fine .. it's up to me to correct them. If they DO IT AGAIN, then there's an issue. It's all part of education and diversity. I don't care to homogenize this world.