black communities all over the country.

I'd say NYC, Chicago, and DC have some of the proudest, most self-assured black people in the country.

Meanwhile you go to some of these southern states (yes I know DC is in the south) and the black folks seem to think Jim Crow is still in effect.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard