A couple of quick responses:

- I agree totally that no history should be glossed over. 200 yea of slavery has had a huge impact on American society. So has internment of Japanese during WWII, so has marginalizing of asians all across the country (this is actually worse in Canada, with the 'no chinese' immigration policies, etc). That doesn't take away from anything else, though.

- During segragation other non-whites didn't have it as bad as blacks, but they didn't exactly ride in teh front of the bus and get into all teh restaurants, either. Elimination os segregation helped everybody.

- (this is weird) Black is teh absence of colour when talking about light, but when talking about pigment, black implies 'most pigmented'. Aside from that, 'coloured' was a term used to specifically refer to african americans.

- Black guy gets pulled over in a nice car? It most definitely is prejudice, because it infringes on teh lives of law-abiding citizens for the simple fact that he's the wrong colour. Ask Ming abou his airport adventures for anoter example.