You're bracing for the hubristic lecture it's not here The crux: unvarnished understanding of how blacks see their outlook for life Only narrow options: they can give in, go through or go around - a predicate path Try to feel what it's like to be born black today soul-deadening suppression systemically smothers patience Crime, drugs, gangs, rebellious pride seem viable options for those who may not see thirty four thousand lynchings in Jim Crow South till now do lives matter Blacks feel the constant fight Blacks feel identity loss Blacks feel crime gives cover Blacks feel numbing is okay Blacks feel tribal is safe Blacks feel whites are asleep Anthropologists say humanity has Nubian origins from the beginning we are one Gandhi, Mandela, King were proponents of compassion, forgiveness, love some whites reciprocate with ignoring, masking, denial too few understand Blacks feel trapped