I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

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.