In short, I believe my past lives include that of Chiron, a centaur who lived, if he did live, ca. 1400 B.C.E., the same era as Moses. My preoccupation with race dates from that and similar lives.

Know for certain: there are slums in Stockholm. And Belfast. And Vienna. And the children who grow up there fare no better, relative their mainstream peers, than is the case in the United States. We will never understand the causes of poverty among black folk until we understand them among white folk also.