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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.

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.

It Turns Out One Of My Ancestors Fought In The Continental Army, So I Was Inducted Into The Sons Of The American Revolution.

Since The Day Martin Luther King Was Killed, The Black Middle Classes Have Almost Quadrupled, But The Percentage Of Black Children Living On Or Below The Poverty Line Is Almost The Same.

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.