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.

In the April 7 2003 piece "For One Pastor the War Hits Home" Blair wrote of a church service in Cleveland and an interview with the minister. A scene in Gilmore Girls episode "The Reigning Lorelai" (4. And while these agitators won't admit it the nasty subtext to their attack is that there is something inherently wrong with blacks.

Jayson Blair (born March 23 1976) is an American life coach and journalist formerly with The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories.