thank you. i want to start with you, ellis. you wrote another book called rage of a privileged class. it received a lot of critical acclaim. in this book, you find new optimism in the country. what has changed from 1993 to 2011? in short, we ended the cast system in america. there was a sense in 1993 when i wrote this among very highly educated african-americans that it was impossible to break through the glass ceiling. you saw a number of break throughs. you saw colin powell and you had the mega event of obama. whatever else it made clear, made clear it was no longer a ceiling for some people. reverend, do you agree with the assessment that racism is less for the generations to come? i think we still have racism. i think the racial disparities