I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent?

Shelby Steele wrote an interesting piece on race. He elaborates on the white and black perspective of race and "seeing for innocence." He gives many interesting examples of this through the Bill Cosby Show, Louis Armstrong, and more.
It was a difficult read for me, some of the sentences didn't flow that well for me and some of the words used, I didn't know the meanings of. It is a narrative piece, yet I find it hard to believe that he used the term heretofore frequently in conversation.
The ideas presented were intriguing. I think it may limit the piece slightly that he only speaks about whites and blacks when there were other ethnic groups struggling to find their place in our culture just as much. I feel that we have come a long way as a society since this time. The idea of the Huxtable family is now easily a reality, you can see that as you walk the halls of our hospital. It was a very interesting piece though.