Originally Posted by Robot
What maketh a northerner? This is the story of my life.I am a black man and those that share my skin color know what a burden than can be.It is the shame of centuries of slavery for which even a decent apology is too much to expect and the pain of knowing that of all the races, you are arguably the most undeveloped (or the closest to the natural state of man).When you read statistics like ‘one in ten black men in America are in prison’, or that while ‘blacks constitutes 13% of America, half of Americans prison inmates are black’ you shudder. I recently started reading African American history (Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston are my top picks) and subsequently engaged my American friends on this topic. I am just beginning to understand the damage to the psyche of the African American male.My ignorance of the peculiar state of the ‘non immigrant black’ in America became glaring after my first hand encounter with some of these pe...
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When was the last time we read anything like this on NVS from our Northern brother? All we get is Gwobe's irredentism.