These comments selectively note & debunk, as needed, examples of written miscues. 1. "...My Poor People’s Campaign sign is still with us, buried somewhere down in the basement." 1.1. The piece's last sentence offers an exceptional point of departure for a more comprehensive treatment. 2. "...Those of us who have named ourselves God’s chosen had better learn that our freedoms end where our neighbors’ begin," 2.1. This reference to American Exceptionalism too readily accepts its accuracy & more problematically the viability of its destructive zero sum game premise. 3. "...We’ve made some progress. We elected our first black president. But institutional and social racism has crawled back like termites out of the walls. And racists blame the president. Strange," 3.1. Conversely, the 'Othering' of persons of color, & many other ostensible misfits has to be dealt with in an ethical manner. Otherwise the op-ed's melancholic lessons learned inventory would have been posited for naught.