"Where the rocks are in the pond" is a metaphor for the concept of empowerment so that those who have traditionally been marginalized and isolated, typically people of color and the poor, can learn the normative strategies that the dominant culture accesses to success. Developmentally, members of marginalized populations are harmed by the lack of access to quality resources for social, economic, political and educational growth. The author has chosen autoethnography as the vehicle to carry critical events that illuminate the deleterious effects of racialization in U.S. society. Critical race...