The assignment was a bit more difficult than I thought initially because of the question posed. What does being black mean. I realized that I could have gone down the road of discrimination, inequality,and many other ills that I have described before.

Many of us (blacks) have made progress above and beyond obstacles. Many have not. But given the state of our economic system I realized that much of what “black” folks had and are going through, many in the majority are now going through with the ever growing plutocracy.

In effect more now than ever we are all in one of two boats, one that is near a tipping point and a luxury yacht. After looking at reality, the assignment then became pretty easy. Being black today is but the color of the skin given that for all the socio-economic woes that was associated mostly with being black is now associated with just being a middle class American.

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