What does it mean to be black in America? It is to constantly receive unsolicited advice on how to have your life managed by people of all shades, cultures, races, and opinions, so that the message, by its design, is contradictory to itself.
However, there is one common trait that binds them all, besides their arrogant insistence on responding to what no one has asked of them: you can be sure that one of these ignorant people has not read - let alone understood - one line of Plato.It is through this guiding vision that the author seeks to reflect on his physical existence and decides that philosophy must be implicated in the total demise of the isolated and oppressive wasteland into which he was thrown.
