This is supposed to be a positive image of American blacks?


I find it depressing—the happy family, the flags, the suburban home, the uniform. This is American ISA in full effect. I almost prefer the negative images to this positive one.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...