there was no racism until patricia hill collins started talking about it.re might have been a little bit there before i actually said a few words but i anniston ones who actually told me that, you're the most racist professor i ever had. i said i doubt that. however, i tried to get into her mind and really, she was very much a believer that we had achieved a colorblind society and people who were raising issues about racism or sexism or homophobia or heterosexism or poverty were creating those very issues and what needed to happen in this climate of individualism was to simply think your way out of that and work a little harder. but i say how do you work a little harder in your ap chemistry class if you're in a high school that doesn't offer a pea chemistry? how can you compete in a school that has a pea chemistry and a tutor, and we are told it is a level playing field. i don't think so. i don't want to depress you because when you see the magnitude of the argument that can be applied to sexism in a variety, there's a tendency to get depressed particularly