"For centuries American culture has stereotyped black Americans, but equally devastating have been the constraining and often contradictory definitions of 'blackness' African Americans have imposed on each other. The right attire; hair from 'conk' to Afro; ghetto slang or 'proper' speech; 'true' black religion versus the false; macho man or super woman; authentic, Afro-centric, or Euro-centric; sexuality and gender roles: Each one of these has been used as a litmus test in defining the real black man and the true black woman. But is there an 'essential' black identity? Can blackness be reduced to a single acceptable set of experiences that African Americans should share or even aspire to?"
"Who's the Keeper of the Blackness?" -- Sinbad
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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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