ABSTRACT
Season it as you will, the thought that the Negro American is different from other people, and especially from other Americans, is still unpalatable to most Negroes. But a rather inexorable logic both explains the aversion (for of course Negro “differentness” was and is largely responsible for the social ills that beset him) and supports the notion. The Negro is different. An iron ring of historical circumstances has made him so. Slavery, organized terrorism, discrimination, prejudice — the point need not be labored.
