Torian Hughes: Forget You’re Black

If you’re black in America, you’re relatively well-spoken, well-dressed, well-educated, sooner or later you can count on one of your white contemporaries — with the very best of intentions — turning to you and saying something along the lines of, ‘You know what? You are so damn cool. Sometimes, I actually have trouble remembering that you’re black. No, I mean that. Sometimes I really forget that you’re black.’ Yeah, well, let me marry your sister, and I’m sure it will pop right back into your mind.