In this short essay, author Leonard Pitts Jr. says that you aren’t black unless you fit a particular criteria. I don’t feel his response was very effective toward the ESPN commentator Rob Parker. I say this because he is trying to justify that some of the black men that are lacking “blackness.” I think that as you obtain an education higher than a high school diploma black men are opened to a world that they have never seen before. They don’t have to resort to violence to get heard, instead they can now express themselves as the educated human that they are. I think that most people don’t realize that a lot of African Americans are really successful in today’s world. The old stereo types of not being educated, illiterate, and a job is ancient
