I come to you not with a heart full of malice and scorn, but with a heart confused, a heart that cannot understand why one man is valued above another. This first man, even though he does not possess the attributes considered by a beholder to be better, is selected above the second because of a need for `equality' and `balance' in a very unequal and unbalanced society. I do not hate anyone, and hope that they do not hate me, and yet, I cannot help but wonder if I were to meet a man upon the street if he would not have a prejudice against me just because I am a white and I am a male.

I present this to you because I look upon each man as my equal until I see his true character, and then my opinion is formed about whether I would...