Thank you, Sita. A wise scholar in Britain has remarked that "common sense" is seldom common. We are fortunate to have you among us. "Black Like Me" was a daring sensation when it appeared in the '50s, an account of a white writer passing as black in the pre-civil rights South. The old Confederacy maintained and nurtured an unmentionab…
Thank you, Sita. A wise scholar in Britain has remarked that "common sense" is seldom common. We are fortunate to have you among us. "Black Like Me" was a daring sensation when it appeared in the '50s, an account of a white writer passing as black in the pre-civil rights South. The old Confederacy maintained and nurtured an unmentionable racial category beyond the current Federal ones: what I call "white like me." When Andy Jackson disposed the Cherokee Tribes in the 1820s they were exiled to the Oklahoma Territory. Some Tribal members refused to move and merged into accepted members of Southern society. Demographers had been long puzzled by a seeming disappearance of approximately 20% of run-away slaves. It seems many became tribal members. Like my own great-grandfather, who stayed in place, intermarried, and left me to carry his genes into the 21st Century.
Thank you, Sita. A wise scholar in Britain has remarked that "common sense" is seldom common. We are fortunate to have you among us. "Black Like Me" was a daring sensation when it appeared in the '50s, an account of a white writer passing as black in the pre-civil rights South. The old Confederacy maintained and nurtured an unmentionable racial category beyond the current Federal ones: what I call "white like me." When Andy Jackson disposed the Cherokee Tribes in the 1820s they were exiled to the Oklahoma Territory. Some Tribal members refused to move and merged into accepted members of Southern society. Demographers had been long puzzled by a seeming disappearance of approximately 20% of run-away slaves. It seems many became tribal members. Like my own great-grandfather, who stayed in place, intermarried, and left me to carry his genes into the 21st Century.