To the Needy Master: On Black Public Thought Under White Supremacy

'Writer Mychal Denzel Smith explores the burden of presenting the Black experience to a White audience - from the demands of media gatekeepers to constantly explain and justify the basic humanity of Black people, to the active passivity of a White society uninterested in examining the historical or present consequences of their status atop American society. Smith wrote the article "The Gatekeepers: On the Burden of the Black Public Intellectual" for Harper's.-- This is Hell!