Quote Of The Day

"Speaking as one of the few openly-black bloggers in Virginia, I can honestly say that my life is pretty darn good. I will not bore you will details, but I find myself spending less and less time preoccupied by racial thoughts, and more moments worrying about the typical travails of a Southern, suburban, professional married man. My thoughts mostly lean toward mortgage payments, car payments, my ever-expanding waistline, my ever-decaying golf game (nonexistant outside of a deadly putter), and staying on the good side of Mrs. Haskins. It is not that race no longer matters in my life - I'm a realist who grew up in a racially-stratified corner of the Commonwealth. Yet, anyone who attempts to argue that, on balance, African-American life has not improved over the years is both ignorant of history and just plain wrong. Yes, black men as a whole face [a] series [of] issues, if we go by the numbers. The Post writers note that, 'Over the past 50 years, black men have been perhaps the most studied and dissected population subgroup in America.' Maybe it is time for such examinations to become the purview of our private lives and not fodder for parlor talk among the masses." – Conaway Haskins, moderate-conservative blogger, on The Washington Post's "Being A Black Man" series