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But it does not change that the most successful national black politicians, are those that have command over their "blackness". They can turn it off, and then turn it on. Obama has a pretty good handle over this. In colonial New Orleans, light skinned blacks were practically treated as a separate class from the thousands of black Africans arriving on auction blocks. Light skinned blacks, on the plantation house, during those days, were the buffer between masters and black field hand masses. It was in the master's security interest to have a light skinned black who could cross that line into the field and, if not carry out the master's will, inform him of the goings on. There are reams of literature on this subject. Perhaps this will shed a little light on the historical appeal of the "light-skinned negro."
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WOW, obsessed with color right down to the tint....geez...this is disturbing...we've gone from salvery...to...dreams of a color blind society.... to...success is determined(historically proven) by shades of black supposedly.....?????
so if we were to pay out reparations, I imagine darker folk would be entitled to larger checks than the lighter folk?...right? someone will need to invent a black-o-meter to make this fair...I know...Al Gore...he's a World-Class Inventor
you claim that what Harry said was "racially stupid" and then proceed to claim that it is historically accurate...
which is it?? stupid or accurate?
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