What does it mean to be Black?
Personally, I can’t see anything wrong with finding pride in which you are. My problem begins and ends with that picture of you being a concoction of how others see you versus how you see yourself. If you see yourself a particular way and it gives you the strength to carry on, move forward and stay positive then more power to you but if does not then I beg each and every one of you to rethink your definition of who you are even if you might have to deeper within you than you have ever gone before to find it. Many say that this may be the failings of blacks that we do not look deep enough within ourselves to find who we really are and therefore end up accepting the definition handed down through the ages. What does it really mean to be black? Was it just a definition of a people that was designed to help slave owners tell the difference between those they brought back and those that was here already? Was it true of a race that the Klu Klux K...