cose. and then the affirmation about public access. . . ellis cose, back on march 40, 1994, he wrote the following. the remember writing that? i do. it was in the aftermath of the o.j. simpson imbroglio. i think it remains to be true today, even though we have a black or interracial president, even though we have made tremendous strides in just those 14 or 15 years since then. we still have a very different way characteristically of coming to these issues. can you give us a couple of examples? 1 current example we have seen, henry louis gates and certain crowley who arrested him. the initial response was to call a policeman stupid. one out of white s five only one out of why only one out of five whites like that reaction. that is just one example of many were there is an issue that impinges on race in this society. we tend to look at a quite differently as a consequence of our different histories and different sets of experiences. how many years have been with