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Throughout this period I appeared regularly I first hosted and then later served as commentator on America's Black Forum, the oldest syndicated talk show in the United States. I became a talking head in an arena when almost all such figures were white and male - and where most continue to be white men today.

All the while, I served on the Board of the NAACP and five years ago, was elected Chairman, and have subsequently been re-elected every year since then.

My life to date and especially this last position has made me a "source" for journalists; my opinion is often solicited on various issues of race.

But I do more than wait to have someone seek out my position; I eagerly offer it as well, in 50 or more speeches around the country every year and in opinion pieces written for the country's newspapers, black and white.

I must say there is something a trifle uncomfortable about all of this - I have opinions on a number of subjects that have little to do with discrimination; almost never am I asked to comment on those. I am victim of a kind of opinion isolation, my thoughts restricted to a ghetto populated by others like me who cannot possibly think about anything other than our race.

TheWhateverself-described pub-- catlRichard Posnec has to say, the real decline [illegible] among [illegible] [illegible] but is the coarsening of the discourse. [illegible] We need more not fewer people, who can intelligently discuss and debate the issues of the day.

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