In 1997 or thereabouts I wrote the first draft of Black Like Him, more than 200 pages of analysis. Since that time I've lost a great deal of information including a number of my manuscripts. But anything that can be done can be done twice in a better way. This time, I decided that instead of reading the book all over again, I would take a shortcut since, after all, I already understand the gist of what Griffin wrote in his 1961 tome, Black Like Me...