A closet Negro comes out. (Journal Entry) (Column)

The Progressive | January 1, 1995| | Copyright

Back when Woodrow Wilson was President and I was in second grade, my elders told me that if any of the white kids at school called me a "nigger," I was to say, "I'm colored and proud of it." Now, some four-score years and fourteen Presidents later, that answer and several other later designations for my people are no longer deemed proper. This year, I am supposed to say I am an African American. Next year, who knows?

As a teenager in the 1920s, I decided to be a "Negro," responding to what was called the New Negro Movement among a notable group of writers, artists, and ...

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