“I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'”
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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.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
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.
