The Audacious Epigone

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The Audacious Epigone

It’s an excellent site that I’ve been reading for months. Here’s a sample from a recent post:

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Think electing Obama will be a cathartic experience that’ll put an end to black community’s resentment over the perceived restraining force of the white power structure like John McWhorter does**? Maybe not:

Yet even as they bask in the senator’s success, some middle-class blacks remain uneasy about their own choices and wonder whether they have distanced themselves too much from poor blacks. They worry that Mr. Obama’s success — what many call being a “good black” — could feed negative stereotypes among whites about blacks who don’t succeed or who act in a more confrontational manner.

If a black guy becomes President, white society will expect us all to become Presidents. It’ll turn the bigotry of low expectations on its head! And they’ll expect us to play the game, too:

“Part of me has my fist clenched under the table,” says Dawn Jefferson, a 31-year-old who teaches at a predominantly white private school outside Washington, D.C. “There is this feeling that black confrontational behavior won’t be so acceptable. We have to all play the game now.”

Welcome to the professional world. We all have to play the game.

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