Precisely That, Covering 500 Years Of African-american

The Biggest Surprise For Me, Without A Doubt, Was That The First Black People Who Came To The United States Weren't The 20 Who Arrived In Jamestown In 1619. All Of Us Had Been Taught That. Well, Guess What? The First African Came To Florida In 1513. And The Huge Shock Is We Know His Name, Juan Garrido, And That He Wasn't A Slave. He Was Free! This Brother Was A Conquistador Who Came With Ponce De Leon. He Was Looking For The Fountain Of Youth Just Like The White People Were.

We Can See That The Complexity We Witness Inside The African-american Community Today Has Always Been There. Black People Were Just As Noble And Just As Ignoble As Anybody Else.

If Martin Luther King Came Back, He'd Say We Need Another Civil Rights Movement Built On Class Not Race.

If America Has A Civic Religion, The First Amendment Is Its Central Article Of Faith.

You Have A Diasporic Black World, And The Only Way To Put It Back Together Again Is Symbolic. It's Like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever Could Edit The 'encyclopedia Africana' Would Provide Symbolic Order To The Fragments Created Over The Past 500 Years. That Is A Major Contribution.