[don-o]

...so then, one should feel perfectly safe in walking through the ‘imagined black community’

Here you are using "black community" in a geographic sense. That is NOT what the PC crowd means.

[IrishBrigade]

Here you are using “black community” in a geographic sense. That is NOT what the PC crowd means...

...of course, you’re correct in that...I was responding to your comment that the ‘black community’ referenced in common parlance has no ‘character, only color’...I get your intention, and agree, but I also strongly submit that a ‘character’ does indeed exist for the concept of ‘racial blackness’, and it has existed for a long time...I’m 64 years old, and I would no more have walked through a black area at 14, because danger would surely have found me, as it would today...this character is a wanton violence unleashed on the ‘non-community’, which I don’t see in the reverse, though they themselves may claim it to be so...