Colson
Whitehead was interviewed on "Sixty Minutes." I am Kindling the "The
Nickel Boys," written by him. This story is right out of the Jim Crow
south based on a true story of a 111 year juvenile detention center in
Tennessee the brutality of which is indescribable.
When does the persecution of persons of color ever end? My
sadness about the plight of African Americans knows no bounds. I am
sickened by it. Century after century and decade after decade of
humiliating white cracker mentality, human beings brought to this nation
on slave ships, backs scarred from whippings, endless beatings, brutal
punishments and sold into slavery with its sunrise to sunset work
ethic, this book is probably unbearable to read. Read it I must, though,
to know this is the part of America that is, indeed, the other America
about which all should know and see.
Then
we must go and do all that we can to rectify these egregious wrongs
perpetrated on millions whose only sin was to have been born with a skin
the color of which would not fade to white.
