When I wuz a kid, I grew up idolizing people like Fats Domino and Etta James. They were "Negroes." And I had Black classmates. I treated them like they were just like me: White.
It was interesting to come across a Newt Gingrich quote this week: "If you are a normal, White American, the truth is you don’t understand being Black in America, and you
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