so today was/is a do nothing day. i decide im going to use my 3 preferred reader gift certificates to purchase some fluff reading from waldenbooks (which didn’t actually turn out like that as the 9/11 commission report isn’t exactly fluff). anyhow im perusing waldenbooks trying to see what exactly im going to spend my $15 on and i look around the african-american section when it struck me….theres an african-american section? why? its not as though there is a japanese american section or a latin american section…why only african-american? does waldenbooks assume that black folks can’t be bothered to look for the books by african-american authors amongst the rest of the books? is it due to the buying trends of african-americans? do my people not WANT to read books by non-black authors? when i think about it, my preferred reader account didn’t make me specify my race so they can’t track my trend purchases by that…or anyone elses for that matter. so did people request this or is this some brainchild of executives in a board room somewhere? furthermore, how do they choose what gets put in the african-american section? what if an author is of mixed race? how about if the author is african-american but the main character(s) is not or vice versa? will it come to the point where if i walk into a waldenbooks and not go to african american section, i get looked at funny?

okay thats all my questions for now. back to ice cream and oldies. later beautiful people.

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