My favorite veiled insult. As if, just, as if. Because I've traveled nine countries in Africa, some of them multiple times, I get exposed to brilliance all the time. People with multiple degrees who speak multiple languages. People for whom excellence is as natural as breathing. But simply because of skin color, such things to the non-traveler are impossible. We cannot see past our own ignorance, as if who we are is the gold standard for excellence. That of course is the human condition. We start with ourselves as THE standard. As if.