"The Civil Rights movement finally made the legal playing field equal (they got their token, $200, and the opportunity to join the game), but that didn't address the social inequalities that have become embedded in the very structures of our society. To a lesser extent, women face similar difficulties, but women are born into all different classes in our society, so whereas blacks have to deal with both racial and class issues, some women only have sexism issues to confront (and, of course, low-income black women have all three to contend with)."

How do you explain the successes of the Latino and Vietnamese immigrants, among others, who arrive with barely a token into a nest of prejudice, but they succeed. Some manage to take the token and become wealthy. What is different about them? Why are they Horatio Algiers stories?