“My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.”
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My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
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 bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
