bi-location, co-consciousness (from AtD)

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:
> 112 words of W.E.B. DuBois found while looking up Obama's acceptance speech.....( we could see Obama's use of MLKing's famous speech in his
>  finale...)
>
>  "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, -- an American, a Negro;  two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
>

all I could think of at first was the part of Gravity's Rainbow where
there's only one, one Indian, one westwardman, one Negro...

DuBois was obviously rising to poetic diction, but my foot became
entangled in the lines

I would venture to say that perhaps there is a Black
group-consciousness today, more so than in DuBois's time, and that as
a member of the white minority I sometimes see myself as if through
their eyes...which is ok.  As long as it isn't through their
gunsights.