Steve Spielberg's "Lincoln" was not only pretentious, boring and overly long. It also left out the AfAm who most helped Lincoln win the war. Who?

How many "whites" in the U.S. have "black" ancestry? How many "blacks" have "white"?

What percentage of Hispanics in the U.S. are "white"? What percentage "black"?

What U.S. President showed the first movie in the White House? And what was the movie?

How many U.S. Presidents have voluntarily (without a crisis) confronted the huge difference between "white" and "black" life in America?

When Thomas Jefferson wrote "...all men are created equal" did he really mean"all white men"?

How many USA presidents owned slaves?

What is the average wealth of an AfrAmerican family as compared to a EurAmerican one?

What "race" would Barack Obama be in New Orleans in 1801? What about Michelle?

What world renowned anthropologist said "race" was "Man's most dangerous myth" 60 years ago?

What's the rigorous scientific standard by which a person's racial category was always determined in the USA?

Can't the difference between the success of different racial groups in the USA be explained by the difference in IQs?

Who was the slaveholder who freed all his slaves while Jefferson and Washington held theirs?

What ethnic groups, now called "white" weren't considered fully white when the USA was founded?

WHO SAID THAT...blacks "have no rights that a white man is bound to respect.".

This is the first of my periodic "WHO SAID THAT..." Quotes. I almost feel guilty - this first one is pretty easy. But they'll get tougher. I promise.

Where did the idea that "whites" are supreme come from? And how long has it been around?

This is tough one, partially because most of the sources for generally accepted information (in the USA at least) is written by people who would be identified as "white".

Also, who is considered "white" in the USA has varied from time to time. One book I read years ago, "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev shows just how arbitrary and politically "correct" the whole idea of "race" always has been...and still is.

Please stay tuned.

How much do you know about race? Really?

"Most Americans are racial idiots", someone once said.

I wouldn't say "idiots". I'd say ignoramuses.

What's the difference?

Idiocy implies the inability to learn. But ignorance can be cured...with knowledge.

I know because I used to be as ignorant of our nation's racial history as anybody. (Maybe even more ignorant). Like most of US, I was "taught to be ignorant" by my teachers, schools and textbooks that did more to ignore or diminish the subject than to educate me about it.

But after spending almost 35 years creating advertising, I've  spent the last 20 years getting myself....er...umm..."unignorant" about America's dark racial past.

This blog is about helping others make up for their racial mis-education as I have.

 Maybe I could've saved Starbucks' Howard Schultz some pain. Ya think?

I'll start you off easy:

1. How many slaves did Thomas Jefferson own at the time he wrote what are probably the five most important words in US history? And what were those words? (No googling, please)

A. According to Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Edmund S. Morgan, Jefferson owned about 200 slaves at the time he was writing his most famous words, "...all men are created equal". But, over his life, he is thought to have had about 600.