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My own privileges as a white American are vast and they affect my thinking of course.  

For that matter, simply being an American ... how much does THAT affect my thinking, as opposed to what my thinking would be if I'd been born in Cambodia?  much less being a white guy.  Yep, if that's what you're getting at I cheerfully agree that I have a very hard time seeing things from a 9-year-old black girl's point of view.  I can't even see things from my wife's point of view :- )

My paradigm however is that the Burmese monk has the same responsibility to seek truth, that I have, that a Venezuelan does.  Comes time to debate, it's what you say, not who says it.

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Thanks for the well wishes RB.  Back atcha.  Hope you can chime in more.