[paul_r]

Originally Posted by DanClass

what's a "post-black"

like michael jackson? used to be black???

wtf

In between these two conceptual extremes remains the legacy of enslaved whites and passing blacks,
who, in today’s world, seem to occupy a limbo of what one might call pre-whiteness and postblackness.
Pre-whites include downsized poor white factory workers, but also those whom the
mainstream media always mark as aspiring, or "good" immigrants— those who don’t yet look like
“real” Americans, but who, with hard work at two or more jobs and lots of intermarriage, can hope
to be white in no time. A post-black on the other hand is that light-skinned, ubiquitous pretender to
victimhood who malaprops his way through the one professional job that should have been divided
among ten better qualified white factory workers. Post-blacks exist in the realm of that utterly
paradoxical category of social projection: the “New Black Middle Class,” which includes anyone —
from office messengers to Oprah Winfrey — deemed not a member of the “real” black underclass.
http://www.ichrp.org/paper_files/112_w_06.pdf