I think you are living mostly in the past. Two factoids that reflect how things are changing...

Elizabeth Warren claimed she identified as Native American when she got hired in 1986. So, are you saying she made that outrageous claim because she did not want the job?

"A survey from Intelligent found that 34 percent of white students who applied to colleges and universities falsely claimed they were a racial minority on their application. The publication found that 81 percent of students who faked minority status did so to improve their chances of getting accepted."

Clearly, applying to school and applying for a job given the current emphasis on diversity means that while each individual situation is different, taken as a whole, there are many advantages to being in an underrepresented minority.

Perhaps one of the best pieces of advice I got at the beginning of my career is that people are all different. But God created so many of them, that if someone does not like you for who you are, there will be plenty that do like you for who you are, so move on and find those people.

Everyone has been rejected for something about themselves that they cannot change... rather than dwell on that rejection, move on. In doing so, you take your "fate" out of the hands of someone that does not like you and you put it in the hands of someone that does. And in that respect, you are controlling your destiny.

My guess is Obama faced rejection multiple times, but in the end, enough people liked him to elect him his President... and in the meantime has become amazingly wealthy... what do you think was the key to his success?

So why do you think people