Barack Obama, Nat Turner, Steve Harvey, "Hoodlum" And The American Experience

From Barack Obama, President of the United States, honoring Nat Turner in his 2/22/12; speech at the African-American Museum to Steve Harvey's the talk show host recognition of his father.  Who Steve Harvey unflappably describes as a "Hoodlum" as being the motive force in his life who inculcated and instilled work ethic in him, to quote "Being a Man," there is a dynamic unfettered in contemporary society that at it's heart has the thrust of the Black Experience on it's own terms, without that axiomatic, apologetic taint of eurocentric understudy.

The usual narrative of the Black Experience meaning it's distortions by eurocentrisim is a pacified, defanged and caricaturized one.  Where a Nat Turner or a "Hoodlum" are valueless and not invaluable as the recognition by Barack Obama, President of the United States and Steve Harvey a successful talk show host imply.

That the Nat Turner, the "Hoodlum," facts of the Black Experience are invaluably on equal terms with all other facts of the American Experience.

If Thomas Jefferson, an owner of Slaves, trader of Slaves is redeemed.  Then we must grasp the one-dimensional nature of all critique hurled at the Black Experience at the idealistic expense of it's organic base the American Experience.

By Apropos