Facing America: The Arrival of a Black Man to His Native Land - Tapa blanda

Imagine a black Catholic arriving in post-9/11 America on a scholarship to act as a substitute minority. He has no idea that he is "black" in the American senseA[a¬A] Add one white Mormon who, taking said incumbent black Catholic minority substitute immigrant under his wing, believes that racism is just an excuse used by lazy, non-white AmericansA[a¬A] Add one white former U.S. chief of staff whose chief effort is to maintain, with the help of his minstrel Negroes, a perception of black intellectual inferiority as compared to whitesA[a¬A] Set said unlikely interracial/inter-religious relationship to flourish at an HBCU in the South whose operating procedures give it a bearing more closely resembling a plantation of administrative apesA[a¬A] Salt with indifference, knead with discrimination and bake in the searing hearth of racism for five years. The result? The sweet aroma of a relationship that stands as a testimony that America is one of the few places in the world where any individual, regardless of sex, race or religious affiliation, can fulfill their dreams.