Unasked Question
August 20, 2007 | 07 Shaban 1428
They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then instead of saying directly, “How does it feel to be a problem?” they say, “I know an excellent colored man in my town….” Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Posted in Culture/Race Relations |
August 21st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Thanks, Wanda. There’s a few bugs to flush out but I thought I’d go for a bit of a change.