Someone forwarded me a link to an article from The Root, which they presumably picked up from Slate which also links to it.
[The Root is a website owned by The Washington Post Company and created in conjunction with great author and historian Henry Louis Gates and HBO, focusing on commentary from an African American perspective.]
It's a good piece of satire, and like all effective satire exposes a whole lot of truth.
The piece is entitled "The Original Black Man's Guide to the Press: Ten easy rules for spinning the white man's media", which is pretty self-explanatory.
You'll no doubt see that much of what is recommended is being deployed in full effect within our 21 miles, such as:
Rule #4: Make continual references to healing as your comments become increasingly offensive -- this will confuse the white man. Also, replace the word "reporters" with "distorters."
See local examples here and here.
Here's another;
Rule #8: You should be sure to lecture white people about how they can't understand because "you don't know your history" and don't hear your pain and you by contrast can feel THEIR pain because black people are more empathetic than their former slave master and his descendants.) This is a perfect time for you to mention that black people "cannot be racist because we don't have any power." (Ignore the implication that black people in powerful positions are, by definition, not really powerful. Or not really black.)
Local example, the ongoing Big Con, and CURB's Lyn Winfield's argument that black Bermudians cannot be racist.
