As A Man, I've Been Representative Of

I'm Going To Quit Writing.

I Knew What It Was To Be Uncomfortable In A Movie Theater Watching Unfolding On The Screen Images Of Myself - Not Me, But Black People - That Were Uncomfortable.

I Want My Great-granddaughter To Have A Fairly Good Understanding Of The World In Which I Lived For 81 Years And Also The World Before I Came Into It - All The Way Back A Hundred Thousand Years, To The Beginning Of Our Species.

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came

My Father Was A Poor Man, Very Poor In A British Colonial Possession Where Class And Race Were Very Important.