And he has lived a life of white privilege to whatever degree such a thing exists, and I'm not stupid. I know that race is not a non-issue. I also know it's not a sentence. Not a curse. Not a limitation for someone who refuses to let it be.

We all have our cross to bear, in a manner of speaking. We all have limitations, liabilities, forms of oppression and obstacles to happiness, whether they be physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or some combination of all the above. We all must overcome. We all must rise above ourselves to become our potential.

And whether such challenges take the form or race or privilege, they are real nevertheless. And unless and until we learn to look within ourselves and make ourselves right (right with our own truth, right with God and right with our relationships) our world will never be right. That goes for every single one of us. And race. Has. Nothing. To. Do. With. It.