And the hits keep on comin’!!
This article is the mother lode on fun facts about the Skipster.
How about this?
In 1969, he began his application to Yale: "My grandfather was colored, my father was Negro, and I am black." He concluded less eloquently but more feistily: "As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate. It is your decision either to let me blow with the wind as a nonentity or to encourage the development of self. Allow me to prove myself."
"Coming from Appalachia, from a tiny village in the Allegheny Mountains, eager to be accepted by this larger black world, Gates longed to "immerse himself in blackness," as a friend once described it. His plan was to admit that he didn't know a whole lot of things. But he would find out what it meant to be black, to be socially responsible to the larger African American community, and yet retain his own personal identity. He would rid himself of racist brainwashing like not finding kinky hair beautiful.
So he’s been playing the race card from day one.
I have often wondered why these black racists don't go spend a considerable amount of time in sub Sahara Africa. There they could experience real black culture. And wonder at the great acomplishments of black civilization.