“My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.”
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'