I said minority group or race because a minority group is a group that is in the minority. It does not have to be a race. Gay people are a minority. I don't know what its like to be a gay person, there are things that gay people go through that I will never be able to understand. I can support them, but I will never understand.
My standpoint from this thread is not "I have nothing to learn" its "I don't want to discuss this too intricately because I know what happens when I do". My posts from a personal standpoint have been few and far between, when I was sharing something with Pebbles I cut myself off and said nevermind only to have someone else insult me because they felt I owed them an explanation for some unknown reason. I don't need to debate whether or not black people can be racist. I don't want to debate affirmative action and who it hurts or who it benefits....and for what its worth, I've been negatively impacted by affirmative action.
Nobody assumed that because you are white that you can't possibly understand anything, but you also cant assume that you know everything either.