Last year Pharrell Williams, in an interview with Oprah, declared that he was a proud member of the “New Black.” In his contrived version of…

Via:  Elev8.com // Being Black is not a fashion statement.<more>  It certainly wasn’t fashionable when Dr. King and the others were fighting for the right to drink from the same fountains, use the same restrooms and sit in the same classrooms as our White brothers and sisters.  Lynching wasn’t the “it” thing to do either.  […]