Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.
All Americans deserve an equal crack at what it means to be a - having - having resources in your own home and in your state and in your country.
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.
