How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?

January, 1993

"How does it feel to be a problem?"--W. E. B. Du BoisDu Bois was putting words into the mouth of a white questioner. No one ever actually came out and asked him to back them. No one has ever actually come out and asked me, either, yet I know that many are itching to. I know I would be. Black men are this nation's outlaw celebrities. It doesn't matter what other modifiers also describe our individual essences--mechanic, police officer, left-handed, Virginian, kind, gangbanger, tall--&qu...

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