Invisible Man
Bilerico Jul 29 08
Contemplating my response to CNN's Black in America series, I was reminded of something W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in the "Souls of Black Folk" published in 1903:
How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,--peculiar even for one who has never been anything else.
To be Black in America in 2008 means a "news" network has the audacity to present the Black American experience with all its diversity of genealogical, ethnic, economic, social, religious, regional, and sexual orientation in a 3-hour documentary. In CNN's view, it is a community riddled with problems, where even those who make it struggle with our identity and are seldom very far for the maladies of our brothers and sisters. Full story...
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