After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.