It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

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.

I have lived a life that has been beautiful and painful at some moments. But I am convinced others can learn how to control a certain kind of rage that bubbles up in many Americans, particularly, but not limited to, women, blacks, and other minorities.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.