During the apathetic, selfish 1980’s, one film stood up and examined race relations without flinching or compromising. One film made an unvarnished, unapologetic statement about the challenges and promise of America’s unfulfilled vision of racial harmony. One film dared cry I am!

We speak, of course, of the 1986 C. Thomas Howell comedy Soul Man. It asked the tough question that needed to be asked, no matter how uncomfortable it made White America: are black people more than just white people who’ve taken a lot of tanning pills? Its coruscating, bracing truth simply could not be denied. And a nation was shaken – and shamed.

It is within that tradition that the Kingston DTYLB/4GB USB 2.0 Data Traveler steps forward. No matter which of its customizable, changeable skins it wears on the outside, it remains a 4GB thumb drive with a protected USB connector on the inside. C. Thomas Howell’s career was effectively ended by the controversy surrounding his bold cinematic jeremiad (at least, we assume that’s why we haven’t seen him in anything in the last twenty years). Will the same thing happen to the Kingston DTYLB/4GB USB 2.0 Data Traveler? Is America finally ready for the truth?

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