> However, I would certainly appreciate feedback from people who are actually, like, afro-american. (Charles? Dwayne?)
Afro-American I ain't, but a white southerner (now living in New York) I am. For what it's worth, my own personal experience supports the idea that white southerners and American blacks have a lot in common culturally. It's not just the churches we went to when we were kids, or our terrifying grandmothers -- our sense of humor is very similar. I find that observations of mine which earn, at best, an astringent persimmony glare among my white liberal West Side neighbors, are quite likely to rouse a very gratifying horselaugh in Harlem.
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