"And the other point I was trying to make is that if there were other Black people or other people of color who participated in these threads I wouldn't have to do all the talking and explaining..."

Not sure about this.

I think you'd end up talking and explaining your perspective to them as much as to the rest of us because that's the way you are. You like sharing ideas and engaging in intelligent honest discourse.

And it's a good thing.

You'll take every idea in this thread and you'll think about it and give it respectful consideration and test your own perspective and see whether there is something to be learned and you'll develop and continue looking for a better understanding and for a better more concise and comprehensive way of expressing the fundamental tenets of how you feel and what you understand.

And I honestly think that the reason why isn't because you are in a significant minority racially, but because you like to take responsibility for these issues - in turn, because you, on the one hand feel strongly about them and on the other because you have spent many years developing your understanding of them.

I reckon if you were on a mainly black forum you would feel the urge to represent "white interests" (for want of a better term) as you would feel, having shared so much here, that you had a pretty good understandng of the variety of white viewpoints and because you're a pretty fair person.

I think this thread for you is about a personal odessey. For the rest of us it is just a bit more mudcat gold.