Addendum to my last post. In my 16 Apr 05 - 01:12 PM post, I said this:

My point in this thread is that one thing we can do to help remedy the problems for African Americans that have been created by slavery and intitutionalized racism

And that seems to contradict what I said in my last post. I think that is confusing and needs to be clarified. The subject of this thread is race. My first post not race specific, but I do recognize that because this thread is about race, the part of my point that is relevant to this thread is the part that addresses the benefits of these programs for African Americans. Had this been a thread about any other exploited peoples, my post would have been just as relevant, and that is how I intended it to be.