intellectual, too analytical an approach to these issues where we don t acknowledge the depth of the racism that still exists in this society and the extent to which blacks are suffering as a result of that racism. where you see it, for example, we never talk about job discrimination anymore. we don t talk about housing discrimination anymore. but just start trying to move blacks into white neighborhoods and watch the push back you get. just start trying with all the school reform, just try start trying to get black students into white schools. people will go nuts. the schools in the united states are segregated now as they were in the late 60s, which is insane. but we don t address that anymore. we talk about how attitudes are changing. i m not sure attitudes have changed that much. rhetoric has changed. the racism remains. and blacks are now farther behind than they were several years ago economically. i think attitudes can change. and at the same time, the