Chris, Thanks so much for your thoughtful and insightful response. I experience and facilitate conversations about race and other dimensions of diversity from a relational perspective, honoring and recognizing our multiple and intersecting identities and the underlying processes of human behavior. That is why I loved and appreciated your comments. I do an exercise on privilege called the Petal Exercise which illustrates the point you were making about how the isms are connected. This is a complex topic and one that of course, cannot be adequately addressed in a 800 word blog post but want to say that I appreciate your insights and response.