Politics as usual can’t solve America’s problems: Richard Boddie

Hi, I’m Richard Benjamin Boddie.
“I was born a highly privileged white lad” on Oct. 19, 1938 in Elmira, New York, the son of Mary Lavinia Johnson Boddie and Rev. Charles Emerson Boddie.
OK, not quite.
The parents, the location and date are true. But didn’t you recognize those opening words as an intended reversal of the now famous words by Steve Martin in his classic movie, “The Jerk”?
The movie opened with Martin saying, “I was born a poor black child.&