"Why is it that we have to portray positive images of ourselves? "
Dear friends,
From Black plays of today that ask either that we come laugh at ourselves or have "white" folks come and feel sorry for us, to hip-hop lyrics that use the word "nigger" so much that even the genre's European American listeners are now identifying with the pejorative term, the level of self-hatred among far too many African American people is, unfortunately, as strong as it was, if not stronger, than the days of Steppinfetchit. Proof? Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and so many other "comics" who are paid handsomely for demeaning us.
Someone then asks: Why is it that we have to portray positive images of ourselves? On the link below, is an incredible essay that was written over three generations ago (1926) by the incomparable Langston Hughes. You should be able to answer the previous question on your own, after that.
One Love!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/mountain.htm
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