I have written often about the effects of white racism on this soil and how this reality and pathology impacts black people on so many levels. I have along the way divided the impact of white racism and it's impact on us (I am black) in 5 sectors.

1. Black Folks who have given up, those who are hopeless, just cannot even get up to have an opinon

2. Black Folks who seek white validity i.e uncle toms, race does not matter fools, cum ba ya types, black apologists

3. Black Folks who seek to work it out, the types who are in denial, often resent strong black personalities, often bi-racial types

4. Black Folks who battle white racism 24/7, militant types, angry, rebels, race warriors

5. Black Folks who have evolved and understand that being color blind is stupid, those blacks who create life choices from an authentic platform, often these are seniors who have navigated this insanity and young folks who do not know the road well, or seasoned intellectuals who have mastered the terrain of race on this soil, those who wake up and see themselves before anything else..

In our country today the bulk of us live in 1-4 sectors those who live in sector 5 like myself are the ones I seek out..

there is black crime on display everyday on the news. deal with this issue then we can talk about february. the battle is lost every day at six pm. if you want to call me a bigot go on. somehow no other group in our multiculti society has to have such a special month allotted to their positive view of themselves. the month is beginning to backfire. people want to see real changes in these communities and each year just emphacizes the downward spiral. whites are gettin tired of all that lecturing. there are problems but they are just too cliche ridden now to make anyone listen.

Every article Ms. Dickerson has veen writing about these past two years has been a whine- fest the first one because Ben Stiller and the boys didn't put a 'black woman" in wedding crashers for them to fuck, now she is whining about Black History Month. You seem to have the perfect life a white husband, privilige, mixed children and get paid for what you write about. I can't figure you out Ms. Dickerson, you scream against racism but you criticize Black Men (whom you loathe) and tell Black Women to date across racial lines because we are all sexist, violent men who believe in patriarchy when according to statistics, black men are not involved with their families or neighborhoods.

And now you are whining about Black History Month being used like a tool for the establishment when you can just say NO!!!! You haven't had to live that life in East ST. Louis in nearly 30 years and you still think you are part of the Black Community (which died in the 70's)you are intergrated not part of Black America. Ms. Dickerson either crap or get off the toilet, be a tool and represent the center- right or be color-blind and don't do race stuff.

Thank you for the single solution in 10 pages of letters:

"I think it would be good for kids of all races to spend a summer or two interning or working in a setting that's massively different that what they're used to. Send those suburban white kids to an urban neighborhood to do landscaping for a church or a park. Have those black kids help out on farm for a summer in a rural town."

YES. Obviously. The only only only thing that can change persistent racism is for us, and especially our children, to experience empathy for others by walking a mile in their shoes.

Call it Race Camp. Call it youth civil service. Call it anything you like, but make it happen.

Hope the Dems are listening....

Debra Dickerson is the prototypical "acceptable" black person who is always asked to comment on black issues because white people know she won't say anything to make them uncomfortable. This is the same reason FOX news calls on Niger Innis to comment on black issues. It is also why the white controlled media trots out Shelby Steele whenever they want to put a black face on someone saying that racism is not a continuing issue relevant to the experience of the black population in the United States. Steele's stature is particularly annoying given the legitimate scholarship his brother Claude has produced directly conflicting the tripe Shelby produces.

Ms. Dickerson is not only a self-loathing, egomaniacal twit; she is also delusional (at best) or a liar (at worst). She laments being called on as a black voice during black history month; while at the same time achieving her stature as so-called journalist precisely because she will not write anything of substance that can be construed as the least be critical of her white masters!

Thanks!

I’ll start by confessing, up front, that I haven’t read DD’s latest on Salon.

I’m sticking by my rule (sadly, and foolishly, broken for the prior article about her OJ suicide wish, hero-worship of Judith Regan and the unfortunate inheritance of a “remnant” male community as her twilight years approach).

For those who missed my rule (free for all to observe in future), here it is again:

Read something by Debra Dickerson = Waste of remaining inventory of potentially productive time

The essence of the letters herein serves to validate, for me, the efficacy of that rule.

The letter from “I won't hold my breath” seems to sum it up nicely. I doubt that anyone can find something she’s written which did not, at some point, morph into a diatribe about her blackness, being unloved, being unappreciated or, more typically, all three of these burdens she continually reminds us she carries.

So, apparently, now she’s whining (humorously, I guess, from the tone of the letters) about not getting paid for being black, WHILE basically getting paid for being black.

and start looking in the other direction: the future.

It doesn't make a damn bit of difference who did what when and how much of whatever blood they had in them. WTF are you doing right now for you, your family, the world?