The Immortal History of Textual Colonialism

That was the original title of the op-ed piece which I wrote some months back and pitched to The Washington Post which was gracious enough to publish it in yesterdays issue as well as in The Herald Sun under their chosen title:

Black Writers in the Ghetto of the Publishing Industry's Making

Now, I knew exactly what I was opening myself up to as Author Carleen Brice had pioneered this particular frontier with her December 2008 essay Reading Too Much Into Race

I remember sitting here at my comput...