These are both low forms of existence, but which is lower?
In my opinion the ***** is lower. His existence is pointless. There's just no good social/historical reason for a white kid to want to identify himself as black. It stems instead from a certain species of guilt, which is why it's generally the very weakminded among whites who fall prey to this. But I'll omit the remainder of the explanation for fear Annie accuses me of writing another dissertation.
The Uncle Tom is a pyschologically simpler but socially and historically more reasonable phenemenon. White people are as much to blame for this as are blacks. Whereas in the case of *****s, blacks play no role and are innocent as can be.
In my opinion the ***** is lower. His existence is pointless. There's just no good social/historical reason for a white kid to want to identify himself as black. It stems instead from a certain species of guilt, which is why it's generally the very weakminded among whites who fall prey to this. But I'll omit the remainder of the explanation for fear Annie accuses me of writing another dissertation.
The Uncle Tom is a pyschologically simpler but socially and historically more reasonable phenemenon. White people are as much to blame for this as are blacks. Whereas in the case of *****s, blacks play no role and are innocent as can be.
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