Pat, a good response. I am white female, so I have had the white privilege and also the crap that women endure. I saw my first racial incident at about age 7 in Chicago when a black family was trying to move into a white neighborhood. I thought it was awful. I never saw a black person in school until high school and then not very many. I am sure that there was red lining in Elkhart, Indiana, because in the early 60s all the black people lived in a thin strip south of the NYC railroad. My family was racist, but it was the casual racism of the North rather than the segregation of the South. I agree with you about poverty, being aided of course by racism in some instances, as a big factor. I did some student teaching in the Peace Corps training in a high school on the south side of Chicago and not one student had a male listed as a parent. There is a book out about poverty in this country which details this problem and how easy it would actually be to solve.