It should be noted that use

of the phase "some of my best friends are black" or any of its

variations including "...as a child, I played with little black girls..."

or boasting that one has "dozens of black friends who live in ...

Watts" is to be avoided. First, it is an outdated, "Archie Bunker-ish"

method of extolling one's multicultural perspective. More importantly,

it implies that to have one black friend or acquaintance bolsters the

speaker's credibility on matters concerning historical events and gives

the speaker license to opine concerning the thoughts, intentions, motives

and views of all black people.

Finally, black people have

no "universally recognized leader" of anything. I know that

some continue to have a really hard time believing this one but it's a

"fact." Nope, not King, Jackson, Powell, Rice or even Jordan,

Denzel or O.J ... No leader. No leader.

Now, "Where do we go from

here Chaos or Community?" Martin Luther King, I think.

John Lewis

Peachtree City

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