The D in Dorothy is Denial

Dorothy Dandridge because of the race issue in the United States could never exceed the heights of white women in show business. Equal, if not superior in elegance, beauty, poise and ability Dorothy Dandridge had to live in and with parallel consciousness difficult for whites, at the time, to understand, grasp, or even more; want to understand. It was the survival mechanism in full gear in the time of neo-slavery from the end of the Reconstruction period until the end of the Civil Rights movement. In this period of American history laws were structured to justify removing Black men off of the streets into jails, factories, cotton and fruit fields, and state institutions to make a variety of products sold on the open market for enormous profits. It is difficult to find a Black family that does not have a story or stories about those times and the uncles or sons who vanished because a cop somewhere had probable cause to lock him up, and make a fair trade.

Today young Black men unaware of these stories, and the government conspiracies from the highest level to the lowest across the country make decisions as deadly as dropping out of school in 2012 as the world shifts power into a high tech age where information and sex is the highest commodity. Behind the times and ignorant of the times is the plight of many a young person in the glory of a life of crime. It is sad, but the nature of chamelons is one of change. The structure of slavery changed very little. It is important and integral to the wealth and progress of the United States. The culture believes it cannot let it go. So the word games are played as the institutional and the intellectual and spiritual construct in the public and private sector finds ways to justify it based on the monetary value of labor. It is a shit hole, but it is the hole we are in and making money from it, myself included. I am a facilitator to that population of ajudicated young people. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories