I agree with Mandingo Nupe, and ECLIPSE and somewhat with RAIN MAN. No one has to be culturally Black. I disagree with MN on this though. Being black is more than a racial composition. It is a state of mind, being, and culture. We all have varying degrees of "cultural blackness" be it rural southern to urban ghetto to upwardly mobile to 2nd generation college educated to suburban to little or no contact with other "cultural" Black folks. Have you ever met "physically" Black people who have no concept of Black culture? Who can not interact with other Blacks because they have no cultural connection, frame of reference, or similar life experience. I often forget that there were two other Black seniors in my graduating class of 110 (there were 5 black students). They had nothing in common with the three of us. They grew up with all whites, attended all white schools, churches, orgs, etc. I never considered them sell-outs although everything about them was "white" (speech pattern, hairstyle, dress, carriage) They never even spoke to other Black students or joined the Black Student Group. Some people just don't care to be Black (in the cultural sense) and some just aren't born into it and some are Uncle Toms. Yes Clarence Thomas is an Uncle Tom and so is Ward Connerly. If you make it difficult for other Blacks to feed ,clothe, educate, employ, or otherwise better themselves as you have, then you are an Uncle Tom, regardless of political or social affiliations, or if you down Black folks to make yourself look good to white benefactors or audience, you are a Tom (Larry Elder and his ilk). I don't think Rice and Powell fall into those categories
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