They got a black girl who is in the top .1% of the African American community in terms of intelligence, class, and articulation to deliver a poem about the usual stuff, equality and blacks acheiving their dreams. Whites across America will applaud, believing that's what the average black person is like, having never encountered any beyond the 'talented tenth' that make it into white neighborhoods and on TV. These whites, while praising her and her poem, have never and will never set foot in a >75% black neighborhood to catch a glimpse of the average black American, due to instinctive fear of being robbed or murdered. These violent no-go zones are deliberately hidden from whites to maintain the illusion that all blacks are as intelligent and articulate as Amanda Gordon. But any black intelligent enough to make it out of those neighborhoods abandon their community for white suburbs as soon as they can. Why doesn't Amanda stop lecturing white Americans and read her poems of peace and unity to the hood instead?
