I'm in academia and have read Douglass, DuBois, Ellison, etc. I'm not unaware of definitions. Yes, African Americans are discriminated against. But it's not ju

I'm in academia and have read Douglass, DuBois, Ellison, etc. I'm not unaware of definitions. Yes, African Americans are discriminated against. But it's not just them. It's anyone without power or money that is systematically disadvantaged. To make it a racial issue is to ignore that, and it's to fall into a divide and conquer strategy that people in power play off of.