“The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation. This blank is NOT filled by the fiction built around upper- class Negroes exploiting the race problem. Rather, it tends to point it up. A college-bred Negro still is not a person like other folks, but an interesting problem, more or less. It calls to mind a story of slavery time. In this story, a master with more intellectual curiosity than usual, set out to see how much he could teach a particularly bright slave of his. When he had gotten him up to higher mathematics and to be a fluent reader of Latin, he called in a neighbor to show off his brilliant slave, and to argue that Negroes had brains just like the slave-owners had, and given the same opportunities, would turn out the same.”
Via Ms. Terry McMillan on Twitter.

Normally Scratch does nerdy characters,
pop culture folks or Black women. I was
surprised to see this lovely combo.
It reminds me of summer.

One of the things that fascinates me about
Veels drawings of Black women, is the
attention to detail with our hair.
Another Banger.
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