The Dual Melting Pot

There is a "melting pot" of all the races of Europe in America, but it does not include African Americans. It may someday include light-skinned Hispanics, and everybody else but Blacks, Stephen Steinberg writes. The American paradigm of race requires that there be an "other" - and the other is Black people. That's what makes white people, white. African Americans for some time have been demonstrating that they reject assimilation into a house that does not want them, by taking on their own names and holidays. No one should be fooled by white youth embrace of Hip Hop culture - a form of commercial consumption, rather than political conversion. It ain't real.  Read More