[...] Facts, events, are hard to deny. Our understanding of how events are connected, though, is contingent…our understanding of cause and effect depends entirely on the events we are aware of. So when presented with events that obviously have bearing on what I write yet is not in there, I have to reexamine the issue to see if the new knowledge forms any new patterns or simplifies older ones. That constant reexamination is what convinced me not to attend to those who say there's no Black community.
Arugments against the Black community's continuous existence go back to the late 1980s. The strongest, I think, says the community was an artifact of segregation. Integration, the official goal even now, would of necessity mean the end of such a community, and just as integration became a goal rather than a technique some see the dissolution of community between Black folks as a good sign. But segregation is not the only basis of that community. [...]
| This week, you'd do well to read all of (and heck, even comment on) Niggerati.net's "Black Community"
posted in weblogs on September 6, 2004 8:56 PM | t (0)
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