Waking Up Can Be A Heroic Event For Black Americans

I've blogged the topic before, but this John McWhorter article also ties in with a post I recently wrote, about how blacks get fired by whites. A black person can lose the ability to think under this level of oppression:

   Do White Folks Fear Violence When Black Folks Are Just Being Blunt?

A “confrontational cadence” can be familiar in black English, but it might also feed the sense among others that young black men are always about to “go off.”

Most black men just think whites are scared,…