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19619, RE: at least print what was said first.
Posted by guest, Sun Feb-11-01 06:26 PM
Your signature is VERY thought provoking! There is nothing like some good a-- food for thought.
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For other Blacks the question of identity is only now being solved by the realizaiton of those things that are their's...The words may be English, but the way a Blacks put them together and the meaning that he gives them creates a new language...

He has another language too, and that language is RHYTHM... It is obvious in musice but is expressed in the way he walks and the way he talks...

There is a music and rhythm to the way he dresses and the way he cooks....

"SOUL" is how things peculiarly Black are recognized by Black men in America...

"SOUL" becomes even more precious when it is remembered that the white man in America systematically tried to destroy every vestige of racial identity through slavery and slavery's lttle brother, segregaton.

It is a testament to the power of "SOUL" that it not only SURVIVED but THRIVED.

Julius Lester