Are You Wearing too Much Black?

Fact: I am a black woman.

Un-Fact: I am a typical black woman.

I started a book club...correction...I posted an ad for a book club on Craigslist-Houston. I have yet to receive any responses. Not sure what implication scared off my potential book clubbers... Was it the phrase "all races, ages and genders welcome" or the the fact that Sci-Fi and Erotica will not be covered? Possibly the fact that I titled my ad "Book Club for Deep Thinkers"...was the clincher...

Thus far I've see plenty of group activities targeting the Black, female or knocked up. I don't understand the limitations of smacking the word "Black" in front of something... Why does there have to be this separation of things? Why would you want to shut out the fact that the world, and our country specifically is a beautifully messy array of colors, cultures and opinions?? Why not embrace that? Why not read about the ideas and happenings of cultures you don't know about? Why read some career-saving trashy novel about some actor who "penned" their memoirs using some underpaid ghost writer? Or some predictably erotic "black literature" about some over-sexed, over successful woman who schools us all on how to handle an equally sexy, successful wonder-man and still keep her weave tangle-free? Ugh...