From "The Gunfighter":
"Unfortunately, there are those in the black community… people I refer to as "the gatekeepers of blackness" ("The Black Taliban" -- Ed.) that would tell you that I am most certainly NOT black enough.....
"According to them, I should dress a certain way, and certainly should NOT wear a kilt ....
"According to them, I'm not supposed to read a lot, unless it is something from Michael Eric Dyson or Terry McMillan (who isn't much of an author, in my opinion)).
"According to them, I should regard the recent writings of authors such as Juan Williams, Debra Dickerson (who I'm having problems with now because she does not believe Barack Obama is Black -- Ed.), and John McWhorter, as the raving of a few self-loathing 'house niggers'... and I must certainly not entertain the comments made by Bill Cosby over the past few years as having any validity....
"There are lots of black people like me, made unwelcome by many in our own community, that live 'the black experience' every day. To the 'gatekeepers', I am putting you on immediate notice: Neither I, nor my philosophical kin need your permission to enter the gate. We are as black as you, and are truly the standard bearers for the best and brightest that we have to offer in this country."
And a response:
"Man, I feel you. I told some of my friends in the Michael Eric Dyson fan club that I read Juan Willam's books and got the death look. The problem the African American community seems to have is the lack of allowing people to be outside of the box they want to put you in. Listen to this music, go to this Church, vote for this party, etc., etc. (There goes the Black Taliban again. -- Ed.)
"Reminds me of when i was on a bus back in my youth with my 'people.' I had just bought some vinyl albums. I had George Clinton, Michael Jackson AND Adam Ant and Peter Gabriel, after the later two were seen I was told for days at school that I was 'Not Black Enough'? Pray for our people..."
Go to http://gunfightersview.blogspot.com/2007/01/am-i-black-enough-or-what-would-dr-king.html
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Booker T. Washington said:
"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
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