I will leave the sociological debate to others as they all seem to find this interesting for some odd reason. I was doing creative writing during my freshman year of high school that had more substance than this. I went to a community college for English 101 and 102 before later studies at JHU. My community college professor would not have accepted this crap from a failing student. I aced his classes with much coaching and discussion over notes he left on submissions concerning my writing style. That professor made the rest of my academic life as well as my career a breeze. She did adhere to the requisite manner of assembling her body of work into whatever her professor surely detailed. Wasn't that impressive? I hated the wasted pages of paper in my own works. If the majority of papers were to appear in the school's journals it might make sense but we all know that doesn't happen because too many college educated students still write on this level, black or white. My career led me to reading resumes at times and if I didn't like the opening I tossed it. I had a fellow worker who did the same. The writing exhibited in this paper would have gone in the round bin as I found it to be sub par of that which what I would expect from an Ivy League grad. Why is this paper so highly touted? It is but racial drivel written in thesis form by a young black woman in an academic surrounding most blacks or whites are not accepted to. I've never set foot on an Ivy League campus as far as I know. If that paper is all it takes to get a BA there I wonder why my nephew is only in the 8th grade and engaged in deeper topics. One thing I will throw out about the sociological aspect of it. This goes further to demonstrate that the educated and wealthy who claim to be liberals will take up the torch for those that don't do so for themselves. This piece even questions how blacks who are better off than the rest of the "community" relate back to it. Does being black mean one can not be a part of the world, destined to living as if there are community imposed shackles holding one down? It is insisted by many that blacks "sell out" if they ever remove themselves from the shackles the community has put on them and better themselves. Do white people from Appalachia successful in education and business think back on the "hillbillies" they left behind in like fashion? I've never know any but it is worth asking because I think the shackles are a bit too tight.