![]() ![]() In 2016, nearly 30 years after her death, Kathleen Collins’ poignant, theatrical short stories were published under the title “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?”. It’s 1963: Whatever happened to interracial love?” Everyone who is anyone will find at least one ‘negro’ to bring along home for dinner. Ralph Bunche will become a household name. The ‘First Coloreds’ in medicine, law, politics, baseball, education, engineering, basketball, biochemical research, the armed services, tennis, and film production will all be asked to come forward and speak about their success. Their daughters will kneel in prayer on the dusty red-clay roads of Georgia, as if the neat velvet pews of the Episcopal Church had never been their first encounter with religion. Their sones will go to jail for freedom (which in their parents’ minds is no different from going to jail for armed robbery, heroin addiction, pimping, and other assorted ethnic hustles). – the hidden enclaves of the Black Bourgeoisie (a book that will be taken down from the dusty shelves of some obscure small-town library and soon issued in paperback, causing the fortunes of an obscure ‘negro’ sociologist to rise – will see their children abandon a lifetime of de-ghettoizing. ‘Negro’ families in Montclair, New Jersey Brookfield, Massachusetts Hartford, Connecticut Mount Vernon, New York Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We are in the year of racial, religious, and ethnic mildew. ![]()
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