Wednesday, January 15, 2014

On You-Know-What (That You-Know-Who Did What-For)


"How times change, and not in a good way. In 2013 we are allegedly past race, which means we are past slavery and therefore have no need to look at it at all. That's how the thinking goes, anyway. Psychologists would say such denial makes perfect sense. Since the '70s -- as the racial gap in income and other areas has widened, not narrowed -- we've become so racially averse, to even call yourself 'black' now is a radical act; to invoke slavery merely as a subject of conversation is to risk howls of protest that you are being a victim or playing the race card. All of which means that a hundred a fifty years after the end of slavery, we are still determined not to give it its due, but to forget it,...The entire struggle of black people after the end of the Civil War has been shaped by one long marketing campaign that casts the South as noble, and blacks as undeserving. Can't have one without the other."









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