I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?