With regards to Rev. Wright and the AIDS comment: I would say it depends on his audience. Do they expect him to tell the truth or be hyperbolic in claims like these? Due to the fact that they're not all gonna be of the same mind, I'd refrain from making the comment.

I'd also have to agree with the sentiment that a white person would have been labelled a racist for claiming traits to be typically black. That is not at all to say I think they're racist and that the use of a phrase "like typical [blank]" should be disallowed. I'd agree that depending on the context, they can mean a multitude of things.

In a more extreme case, compare the response to the decision by the DA to try some of the girls as adults in the recent Florida group beating with the DA in the Jena 6 Case doing the same for Mychal Bell (who was 45 days removed from the age of consent and had 4 previous arrests). Again, I think in both cases the DA should be allowed to make the decision, I'm merely pointing out there was a great degree of difference in response. And not in favor of the white people.

I'd agree with the idea that we have to take different perspectives into account and weigh them accordingly, but only to the extent in which it is required: to the extent and the situations in which black people are still disadvantaged. If it is not necessary to look outside my biography, I feel perfectly fine treating a black person exactly the same as I'd like to be treated.