[gonyea]

"Playing the race card on why life is hard is a cop out."

What a shitty, thoughtless thing to say. Life is significantly harder for african americans. That's a fact; dismissing experiences is an ignorant thing to do.

I'm pretty sure he knows he needs to keep on trucking in spite of that, or he wouldn't be posting here. But being african american has and will cost him several "well, let's give this kid a chance" foot-in-the-doors that white guys experience pretty frequently (like me).