“The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3, 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.”
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The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
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.