I have been an active reader of your blog for two months now and I count it a blessing that I have been able to receive such inspirational and stimulating advice on life and success. I am daily bookmarking your entries on my blackberry so I can look at them wherever I am, because they never fail to motivate me to act. However, it’s hard to express the disappointment I felt when I read this entry and saw the phrase, “Despite being of Germanic descent, and among the whitest people I have ever met, she had recently started listening to nothing but hip hop– I was beginning to think she was starting to think she was black.” What exactly is “think(ing) black” and how would you characterize it? I’m not accusing you of being a racist or even prejudice, especially given your previous jobs and outreach programs in the Detroit area that you’ve written about. I’m really just trying to provoke a new thought and challenge you to not use, say, or believe phrases like “thinking she’s black,” “talking like he’s black,” “dressing like they’re black” or any other racial or ethnic group. On the eve of the most historical inauguration this country has ever witnessed, I think it’s clear that there is really no such thing as “thinking black.”