![]() ![]() Implied in all this was the hiding, the denial, of his selfhood, his negritude, his culture, as though they were somehow shameful. What fragmented individualism really meant was what happened to a black man who tried to make it in this society: in order to succeed, he had to become an imitation white man - dress white, talk white, think white, express the values of middle-class white culture (at least when he was in the presence of white men).George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).The smith and his penny both are black.These characteristics don’t spring from whiteness or blackness, but from a man’s conditioning. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and less leisure, and he would after a time assume the same characteristics you attach to the Negro. They only study the effects of environment on human nature. ![]() The social studies I’ve read deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white.John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me (1961).Otherwise, the sounds from the quarter would lose order and rhythm and become wails.” You are condemned.” This is what the white man mistook for “jubilant living” and called “whooping it up.” This is how the white man can say, “They live like dogs,” never realizing why they must, to save themselves, shout, get drunk, shake the hip, pour pleasures into bellies deprived of happiness. So the noise poured forth like a jazzed-up fugue, louder and louder to cover the whisper in every man’s soul.Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes the Case for Reparations at Historic Congressional Hearing, Democracy Now' (20 June 2019).And there is, of course, the shame of this land of the free boasting the largest prison population on the planet, of which the descendants of the enslaved make up the largest share. Black women die in childbirth at four times the rate of white women. The typical black family in this country has one-tenth the wealth of the typical white family.It is an achromatic color, a color without hue, like gray and white. It is the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It's not easy facing up, when your whole world is black ~ Mick Jagger and Keith Richardsīlack is the darkest color. Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts I see my red door, I must have it painted black I look inside myself and see my heart is black For other uses, see Black (disambiguation). ![]()
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