Yup. Following Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, many Southern states made it illegal to teach slaves to read. The reason? The power structure convinced itself that Walker’s An Appeal to the Colored Persons of the World is what provoked Turner’s Rebellion–because they could not imagine why a person held and treated as a slave would have any reason to rebel! (The parallels to the claims of the Obamacare supporters about why there is popular outrage about Obamacare should be obvious.)

I challenge you to rewrite the story based on that fact. Then you have something that is real.

Funny….. race has nothing to do with it from that point of view, does it?

That’s my point. Race has nothing to do with this, it is about attitudes, regardless of skin color.

Your African angle as a race is a lie. Not to take away from your ability as a writer, just to point out the very plain truth obscured with repeating that lie. But then, perhaps that’s a story you might find worthy of writing given it is the formula for ending all the BS.

What’s the matter everyone?

Telling the truth is just…. too simple?

Congrads, you get it.

The answer is to why ‘ we’ do is… ‘I’ don’t.

Remove any thing that is placed in front of being an American and suddenly, you have those who want to be separate, not unified.

It becomes crystal clear.

Remove any religion from being a race or native tounge and suddenly, you just have Americans who either are for this nation, or against it.

Most of the ones against it just haven’t figured out yet that they are not special.

I challenge any of you to disprove this. Any where… at any time. You can not because it is a basic, simple truth.

Denying the truth is the what political correctness is based on.

I refuse to feel guilty, I refuse to be intimidated and I refuse to let anyone tell me it’s raining while trying to pee in my ear.

Try it, it’s quite liberating.

It removes about 98% of all BS.

Dispel the myth.

DH

My significant other was married to a Black American whom she met attending Princeton in the ’70s. He was the son of an army Colonel, and very culturally middle-class (in the Army officer corp, they’re not black or white; they’re khaki), and as she relates the story, it was pretty much the same thing. He was too much of a nerd (studying chemistry instead of black studies (gasp!)) to relate to the black social order there. He was just as much an outsider to the “community” as any of the immigrants.

The real issue that ties all of this together is a certain – I’ll say it – snobbery. Even in the ’70s, even at Princeton, it wasn’t ok to be “white”.

I’d love to believe that the progress that MF describes is as rosy as he describes it, but the picture that I’m getting is much more mixed. I think that statistically, he may be right. The number of college graduates is up. But statistics rarely tell the whole story. This is a very involved topic, but the bottom line is that this progress is a mix of real and counterfeit success, and things aren’t going to progress much further until this snobbery (which may in fact be a mask for other things) ends.

It may suddenly be recognized as a problem and dealt with, it may fade away evolutionarily, or it may be with us for a while longer. But certain things (such as penetration into the small-business sector) aren’t going to improve until that chip on the shoulder gets put in the pocket, or preferably the trash can.

Say what?