Thelma Streeter (circa 1948) Earlier today I was chatting online with a friend and colleague about the surreal and exhausting state of the world, and he made the following statement: Sometimes, I feel like an imposter in the conversation [about equity work], as I am the quintessential benefactor of this historic class system, but I still feel like it has to be much more difficult to be a mouthpiece as a black American. So often, it has to feel like people immediately shut down when you start talking about inequality. Or systemic racism. To which I replied: If you're the imposter, then I'm the sleeper. I, too, have benefited from the same class system. My parents circumvented and exploited it, and then taught my brother and I to not only do the same but to also conduct ourselves as if we have always been here. And that was just the most recent generation. Some day, we'll talk about my social-climbing, paternal grandmother. ***** Thelma Streeter (née Dennis) was born on Jul