“Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.”
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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
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.
