The State of Black America by Thomas Klingenstein

Professor allen has edited a new collection of essays by several contributors, entitled the state of black america. In in his you have a forward, a brief forward by thomas klingenstein, which speaks of changing the narrative. What is the existing narrative and how must it change? I can say that, in a word, it's racism with the capital r. That's the existing narrative. But that's a poison that's been injected into the veins of the cultue.