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We Can't All Work In The Inner City. And, I Don't Even Think That It Is Incumbent Upon An African-american Intellectual To Be Concerned In Their Work With Problems Of Race And Class. It's Just One Of The Things, That We Here At The Dubois Institute, Are Concerned About.

In The Old Days, You Lived In One Neighborhood, You Knew All Your Neighbors And Your Daughter Married The Guy Next Door. That Was Social And Economic Progress. That Model Is Gone Now. We Also Had A World Order That Was Fraught But Fairly Stable.

My Father, If Anything, First And Last, Was A Man Of Words. He Loved Stories; He Didn't Live For Stories, Exactly, But I Think He Lived Through Stories. I Think, Like Many Writers, He Loved Stories About Things He Had Experienced As Much As, If Not More Than, He Loved The Experiences Themselves.

Fortunately, In President Obama, The Child Of An African And An American, We Finally Have A Leader Who Is Uniquely Positioned To Bridge The Great Reparations Divide.

So, Mexico, Brazil, They Wanted Their National Culture To Be 'blackish' - Really Brown, A Beautiful Brown Blend. And Finally, I Discovered That In Each Of These Societies The People At The Bottom Are The Darkest Skinned With The Most African Features.