No worries on misspelling my name—it's not common, so people get it wrong, and it never bothers me. I only tweaked you for that because you were so insistent that you have got things right..

You make me wonder if your friend was distantly related to me.

As for smugness, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Of course statistics matter in context. I write these posts because race reductionists ignore the fact that we live in a capitalist society where people of all races suffer from generational poverty.