Or maybe your point wasn't a good one.

I'm not trying to be confrontational here. And certainly not obtuse. I didn't think your entire point hinged on Oprah. But it seems, correct me if I'm wrong, that your point hinges on the kinds of mundane indignities that, as I said, all kinds of people face for various reasons.

For us, it might be our skin, for others, it's their weight or their lack of conventional attractiveness or maybe a disability. Again, I'd love it if we could get past these indignities. But we aren't alone in facing them. And in the grand scheme of things, they aren't that big a deal. Frankly, disability is a far greater stigma in society than having the wrong colour skin.

For example, a poll back in 2015 found that 7% of Americans would never vote for a black candidate. No matter how qualified. That's not good, but as we know, it's not insurmountable. The same poll found that 8% of voters would never vote for a woman. 24% would never vote for a gay person. 38% would never vote for a Muslim. God knows what the figure would be for somebody in a wheelchair.

All of this is important and worth fixing. I'm not suggesting otherwise. I'm saying that the main lever to pull, the one that would have the greatest positive impact on people's lives, black people disproportionately so, is to address class inequality.