A white diversity and EEO professional at a U.S. hospital takes exception to being “racist,” as the hospital has 89 percent employees of color and women employees. Is this enough to say all the employees are equal? The White Guy says no, and here’s why.

What do most white people really think? The White Guy gives you his expert take on white people’s assessments of black intelligence.

When the White Guy responded to a reader question about why the NBA doesn’t look like the rest of America, the e-mail floodgates burst open. Read what they had to say.

One DiversityInc reader wonders why the NBA doesn’t look like America. The White Guy has the answer.

Question: I’ve always been taught that racism does not have anything to do with just mere dominance. It has to do with the “willful” and “hateful” act of purposely denying another race(s) of the same rights to earn a living, obtain housing on an equal level, get gainful employment with the same equal pay for equal effort. It is not based on the fact that white people outnumber a particular race. It is based on using the power structure against another race or races so that they never lose their dominance in every pursuit of legal and fair rights to the pursuit of happiness via employment, free worship, voting rights, etc.

Question: By your refusal to accept other points of view on the subject of affirmative action, you fit the dictionary definition of a bigot yourself! Is discrimination of any kind wrong? I say it is. Affirmative action IS a form of discrimination, and therefore, in my opinion, it is wrong. How does discrimination become right in your defense of affirmative action?

Question: So in order for someone to be racist, they must be a minority in the entire country? What about places where blacks predominate like Detroit and D.C. where they hold the political power?

Question: You’ve expressed your doubts that reverse discrimination exists, White Guy, but in this medium-sized factory, hourly workers aspiring to leadership positions are trained to parrot the following sentence, when asked: “All else being equal, we should always promote the woman or minority first.” Your comments, please.

Question: What made DiversityInc exclude white men and women from the cover of their recent magazine? If the intent is to show contributions to successful diversity programs by people of color, the cover hit the target, but it certainly excluded successful programs developed by whites.

Question: Do you think women and minorities will be appreciably different by 2028, so that they won’t “need” free stuff for their sex and/or skin color?

A reader asks the White Guy why DiversityInc appears to be going against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words. Read the answer here.

Question: I live in a small suburb of Kansas City, Mo. I have noticed more frequently that individuals in the area have confederate flag bumper stickers, flags hanging as windows, etc. What’s the deal?

Question: I want to begin by saying I am intrigued on a weekly basis reading “Ask the White Guy.” Most people would avoid this kind of thing like the ghetto itself, yet you willingly invite folks to ask you tough questions. My question is simple … why do you care? All the points that you make (over and over and more eloquently every time) seem like a lot of work for you. It can’t make you popular among your family and friends—so why do you do it?

Question: I read articles off of DiversityInc.com all the time and I have often wondered what some of them have to do with diversity. It seems to me that if it is news and it has something to do with a minority then it gets to DiversityInc. My fault, I was under the assumption that diversity was about differences that can and cannot be seen, not just about minority/majority.

The furor over Oprah Winfrey’s immense humanitarian gesture of opening a school for girls in South Africa is spiraling. Has Winfrey become a target for verbal abuse because she’s a rich black woman who chose to spend her millions on needy black children overseas? Would a white, male millionaire get so much criticism for a philanthropic gesture of this magnitude? Is less expected of Winfrey simply because she’s black?