If it is safe enough for a white woman to cross the street then it is safe enough for me.
Sometimes I notice that I will only dart across the street risking my neck to cross the road a few seconds faster if I see a American person casually strolling down the way.
America has taught me that is is dangerous to try to live your life by the example of American women.
What I mean is this that as a young Negro male I cannot do the things of a young American woman. Now, of course no man can do exactly the things of the a woman and visa versa. The things that the American woman can do cannot be done by that of a Negro woman. I speak not of mental or physical limitations. I speak not of inherit genetic differences that disallow certain behaviors and capacities, I speak of social restraint. I speak of being free white and twenty one.
The freedom that is offered to a young American woman is not the freedom offered to a young negro woman. Now, we must ask ourselves how can this be if we indeed live in a land of fully free people with blind justice and equality to all under the law. How can this be?
America has taken down the colored only signs but now instead of de jure segregation we now have de facto segregation. Our national highschool lunchrooms are evidence of this. We see evidence of this in the fact that the national media will scowere the world in search for a missing American woman.
There is a certain invisiblity when it comes to the white race. It is my firm belife that we know how aggressive the United States will behave towards the Negro in watching how the United States behaves towards its own Americans.
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