...and a black man. And when I think about your career--again, my mothers Japanese--I think about her experience. I know her experience directly, coming to America, being Japanese, in the aftermath of World War II, where Japanese people were) viewed as the enemy--even Japanese Americans, viewed as the enemy, because they were put in the (relocation) camps. So Im wondering: you come as a Japanese person and woman. Do you, how do you ... when you reflect back, look back--cause lot of times you dont recognize it when its happening--do you feel that that worked against you? Obviously, in some ways, it worked in your favor, like you said you got the scholarship from Berklee cause they could advertise, they used you for advertising. Do you feel that these, that you being a woman and Japanese worked against you in America, whether its just being a jazz musician, or just the way you were treated socially?