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...what we know is not what they tell us...

Regarding "favorite black" categories, I quote W. E. B. Du Bois:

	"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-conciousness,
	 this sense of always looking at one's self through the
	 eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of
	 the world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
	 One ever feels his two-ness, an American, a Negro; two
	 souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings: two
	 warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength
	 alone keeps it from being torn asunder."

Du Bois said that in 1902. A 1985 version might change Negro to Black.

Racism is so deep in American attitudes that it often goes unrecognized.
It is so deep that its expression goes unnoticed except by those to
whom it is directed. It is so systematically encouraged that when one
has that "peculiar sensation", one is more likely to think oneself too
sensitive rather trying to deal with the very real duality of life
as a Black American.

					Joyce Black



	...none but ourselves can frree our minds...