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Sharp n’ Blunt

Open Season on Ni**ers

By Desi Cortez Columnist

No one, not even angry White folks, can tell me there�s no effort by Black folks to halt the murders of Black boys by Black men, nonetheless we face millions of Black boys who were born into a contrived, make-believe world where they�ve been painted n� tainted by the White majority as inherently inferior, as…

March 29, 2012 1 min read Free to read

No one, not even angry White folks, can tell me there�s no effort by Black folks to halt the murders of Black boys by Black men, nonetheless we face millions of Black boys who were born into a contrived, make-believe world where they�ve been painted n� tainted by the White majority as inherently inferior, as well as violent, war-like, and extremely over-sexed… and a sorry but significant portion lower themselves to such gutter-low expectations.

�If you can control a man�s thinking, you don�t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don�t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don�t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.� – Carter G. Woodson

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