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Blackness and, in specific form, the black thus function has the breakdown of reason, which situates black existence, ultimately, in a seemingly nonrational category of faith. Blacks live on, as Dostoyevsky might say, in spite of logic ... The black stands as an existential enigma.
Eyed, almost with suspicion, the subtext is best exemplified by the question: "Why do they go on?"
'Why do they go on?' placed in the context of the black is easily reformulated, simply, as, "Why go on?"