“My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.”
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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
