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Some of my colleagues on the editorial page deplored the Thomas-Hill hearings because they presented the spectacle of two black professionals at war with one another. White professionals are at war with each other every day, and nobody thinks to write an op-ed column about them, but in the minds of these columnists any black is thought to represent all blacks, and so it creates a "bad image" when two of them disagree publicly.
This opinion is silly, to the extent that it is not tragic.
It reflects a narrow view of the diversity of black people in America - so narrow it does not perceive the real image of the Thomas-Hill event, which showed millions of TV viewers a spectrum of many different black professionals, all speaking for themselves.
Yet there is a persistent view, held by many blacks and whites, that some mystical reality known as the "street experience" is what authenticates a black in America, and that a black professional - a corporate executive, say - is