“It ain’t fittin’… it ain’t fittin’. It jes’ ain’t fittin’… It ain’t fittin’.”

White people are completely foolish, even the conservatives, to feel an obsession with setting up darkies as exemplary of the American ideal. This proves nothing. But we realize, at this point, that the white conservative has only one fear in life: to be called a racist. To avoid such a terrible taint, the white conservative is compelled to parade darkies who are self-reliant, successful, and hold conservative values. This represents some ultimate triumph, some supreme justification of all that is American. The white man is satisfied.

But, may we ask, do white people have a people? Who are a white man’s people? Is he allowed to have any? This guilt-ridded, self-conscious white man is making a mess of things, it seems to me. There may be some deep sense of conscience that is assuaged when a dusky heathen is set up as a success. There may be some sense of self-justification of all the white man has achieved.

America as an idea is fast failing. America as a family needs fast redemption, if there is any hope left. Take if from an old Indian “stepfather”: the white man needs to tend to his own family.