Wow. Thank you for your honesty — although I don’t endorse killing silly people — that’s just as silly. If I may add to what you have said or at the very least, add an additional angle? Okay. Here goes. Think of the average education of a white person in the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. Many were lucky to have been taught the basics with a little Latin and Greek thrown in. They did not have psychology or sociology. They weren’t taught that other cultures weren’t bad; they were just different. (I clearly remember a time in my life when I knew this and when I didnt.) There wasn’t technology like there is now for information to be shared quickly, so that many more can receive it more quickly and completely. The less enlightned American of the 17th, 18th, or 19th century, therefore, assumed that Africans were child-like and superstitious because that is the way that they presented themselves. The majority of whites of the premodern/pretechnological world didn’t understand that the African-American’s behavior, dress, and religious faith was a different cultural background that emphasized different things, had different cultural ideals and expectations, and an education that was unsimilar to a white man’s education. (Yes, civilization has risen and fallen in different areas around the world. One race is on top one moment; another is on top the next, while still another is in the middle of a Dark Age.) The fact that many African-Americans were not given, and later on, were refused an education, perpetuated this myth. By the time that these African-Americans were freed, that was a positive step in the right direction, but they did not have the skills (because of a lack of a SIMILAR education and/or knowledge base)that the basic white person had. This perpetuated a myth or stereotype. (This was even worse in the age before technology. They couldn’t watch television and learn through media like children can today.) In a way it shows a lack of wisdom and/or education of the general white population as well. In TKAM, Harper Lee shows the world that she lived in as a child. She shows a black community, who still, in the 1930′s, had not received the education that they needed — because of these assumptions. (It then becomes a vicious circle and self-perpetuating myth.) Thus, many can’t even read. I say all this to say that the African-American, black, whatever anyone wants to be called is working from a place of deficit. Books have been written about people, even within AA community, who have been trying to resolve this deficit and end the myth that resides in the minds of lesser-educated Americans and in the hearts of some black Americans who have come to doubt themselves. Don’t worry; most white people, who actually know what an IQ test is, know that the IQ test is culturally biased and doesn’t necessarily measure what it says that it measures.) I hope that someone out there can get where I am coming from. . . I hope that people will continue to rise up and choose to be educated to set an example for someone else within the community.