Prometheus 6

He asked ...

Today it seems we must be reminded that blackness is an intellectual construct. If it becomes anything other than that, it will essentially be racial, and there is no good to come from that degeneration. I wonder (out loud) if the bulk of African Americans, looking at them as an ethnic group, wish blackness to go in that direction. If they don't, then there are great challenges to get that intellectual spark going again.

First problem...what the hell is 'blackness?' I know who Black people are...

If you insist on getting all airy-fairy philosophical, all the true statements ever made doesn't prove there is such a thing as Truth...some common essence that all true things share. And all the Black people in the world don't prove there's such a thing as 'blackness.' One would think a person who rails against all the "blacker than thou" would recognize that rather than playing with it.