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BETWEEN THE LINES; Blackness is...
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Samad, A. Asadullah
Los Angeles Sentinel
03-16-2005
These days, to proclaim "Blackness" is to create a national controversy.
For claiming Blackness, or anything of race context, is to violate the
social protocols of the race neutral construct that has been put in place
to deflect conversations about racial disparities. Jamie Foxx, in accepting
his "Best Actor" Oscar in the name of "Blackness," hit a national
nerve-some even calling it reverse racism-for those who push the
race-neutrality agenda. Suggesting that Foxx's race really didn't matter,
"colorblind proponents" had hoped that everyone would ...
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