In addressing your questions, I am struck by how impossible this discussion is in the absence of voices from "black" America. Even with a portion of my blood running to an African ancestry I did not grow up in a "black" area and therefore my experiences do not reflect that perspective.
I have yet to read the unvarnished, unprotected words of those who feel the oppression of the past in this discussion here. Without those words I think we are engaged in philosophical masturbation.
You are going to have to stop agreeing with me, Phil, or people are gonna begin to talk.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos
p.s. Nicely worded.
