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One Must Learn How To Be Black In America.

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.

Patriotism Is Best Exemplified Through Auto-critique. When You're Willing To Stand Up Within The Group And Say, 'it Is Wrong For Black People To Be Anti-semitic,' Or 'it Is Wrong For America To Discriminate Against Persons Of African Descent And Made Them Slaves And Based Its Wealth Upon Free Labor,' It's Crucial To Say That.

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.

In Ethiopia, The Black People Became Christians 1700 Years Ago, Hundreds Of Years Before Northern Europe Turned To Christianity... And Here, Most Of The Saints Are Black.