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Leonard Pitts Jr.: How to be a Black man

Today’s topic: “How to be a Black man.”

It’s a subject on which white conservatives are often quick to offer instruction to actual Black men, their utter lack of relevant experience notwithstanding. In split screens on Fox “News,” online and in emails to Black male columnists, they give unsought counsel.

Black men, they say, should educate themselves. Speak the King’s English. Be

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