"Black"

Ta-Nehisi reflects on the many black Americas:

My time up in the Woods pretty much convinced me that, in
ways, I'm rootless, that "black" is important to me because
decided to make it so, not because it's objectively true. The
counter is that racism forces you to accept an identity. But
just never been true for me--I can count on one hand, and maybe
fingers, all the instances of direct racism I've experienced.

Forme, "black" was always most descriptive as an...