Podesta says:

Ken, I understand where you are coming from, but must disagree. I know D.D. and we have discussed the issue of black ‘authenticity’ over the years. Her main point is that the way Americans of African descent are treated is determined largely by segregation and slavery. Both may be ‘over’ technically, but slavery and segregation are the reasons that people of color are still perceived as lesser beings.

Racists like Jägermeister want the matter under rug swept precisely so they can claim that the racism is no longer a factor in how people are treated.

Chitown, that aphorism is pretty accurate. Children of slave women were considered black so that slave masters (often the fathers) could hold them in bondage. Southern states continued to define persons with as little as one thirty-second African ancestry as black well into the 1960s. As a result, anyone perceived as having African ancestry is considered black in America. That sometimes includes people who don’t have any African ancestry or have attenuated African ancestry, such as Sicilians.

Dani says:

Please cut all the crap out!!! these folks and i mean the white ones know what their ancestors did many centuries ago and still up to this day they still practice the same norms only that they are more concealed. The earlier they compensate for their wrongs past and present, the better, which will create the desired atmosphere for everybody to move on from black this, black that arguments> its time for our just dues!!!