as a matter of fact in grade one daryl chatman -- and we were close friends, there we are, i'm in thewith hair in mrs. shannon's class. but we've drifted apart. and i wondered what he would say about white privilege. so i called him, many decades later, and i asked him. here's what he told me. i would say there was a white privilege, and, yes, i was aware. everything that happened in the lives of everyone else is because of opportunities being more available. but it didn't bother me or stop me from what i wanted to do. it was part of something i had to live through. and then he added, my parents taught me well. well, they did indeed. if we'd had this essay contest when we were kids, darryl probably would have won. joining me now, harold bailey, authored the contest, former ibm executive chair of team westport together effectively achieving multiculturalism, so this is international news. what's the biggest misperception? >> well, i think one of the biggest misperceptions to start with is that i'm the author. >> aha. >> of the prompt, of the challenge. this is a contest we've run for t