Washington Post Columnist Eugene Robinson wrote:
What do Fox News polemicist Bill O’Reilly, nappy-headed radio jock Don Imus, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the leading Republican presidential candidates, the National Urban League, the NAACP and much of the national media have in common?
They don’t see, or don’t want to admit, that “black America” is an increasingly meaningless concept — nearly as imprecise as just plain “America.”
Robinson isn’t saying anything new here and certainly not profound. So why do we so desperately need him to say it?
Read more from this great column here.
*I realize that not everyone in the above photo is black, but it’s a great pic. By the way, if you like Sly and the Family Stone … and trust that you do, even if you think you don’t considering the number of folks you probably like who were influenced by them …. check this tribute album out.
Check out some of Eugene’s guest contributions at Intelligent Ignorance.
The Urban Scientist
he is SO right. but it is very hard to convince people that being black does NOT mean being from the hood, growing up poor, being on welfare, not knowing your father, hustling to survive, etc.
this is even harder for most black people to understand. generalizations can be evil. it closes us off to new or even clarifying information, relieves us fromt he responsibility of being observant and discerning.
October 9, 2007 at 8:10 pm
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