C-SPAN: Complexion Of Race In America This morning when I woke
up and turned on the television I caught the tail end of the
video above, which is presented in its entirety. A woman from
the audience asks the author Daniel Shaferstien a question that
prompts him to define RACE in America. (See the 50:52 mark in
the video) Sharfstein is heard providing a definition of "race"
- from the perspective of "White Privilege" and "Black
Oppression". While the balance of American history no doubt is
about this very conflict - this DOES NOT define the whole of the
experience of the Black American. It does allow us to look what
is in the mind of NY Times opinion writer Brent Staples and note
the commonality that he has with Sharfstein - that Black people
are a FUNCTION of our relationship with Whites. |Orindatus Simon
Bolivar (OSB) Wall| A Family Decides To Pass Sharfstein's Answer
As To What "RACE" Is (and implicitly, what Black people are):
"It's less important to talk about race and drops of blood and
more important to