When Marcus Garvey Died In 1940, The

What We Might Have Been Dealing With Here - With The Building Of The Pyramids - Is An Age That Got Lost. Man Had To Learn Again What They Previously Had Known.

You Shouldn't Bear Humiliations.

I'm One Of The People Who Believes That Our Losses Were Greater Than Our Gains. Because Before The Civil Rights Movement We Had Entrepreneurship In The Black Community. Right Now, In Harlem, If I Wanted To Get A Shoe Repaired, I Would Have A Hard Time Finding A Black Shoe Repairman. On Near About Every Third Corner, You Could Find A Decent Black Barber, Decent Black Laundry, Had Restaurants In The Neighborhood That Were Open 24 Hours. The Food Was Good At 3 O'clock In The Morning As At 3 O'clock In The Afternoon.

My Mother Really Held The Family Together. She Was A Perfect Example Of The Kind Of Black Woman I Would Love To See Again. She Ruled My Father With An Iron Hand, Yet She Barely Ever Raised Her Voice Above A Whisper.

As The Eldest Son Of An Alabama Sharecropper Family, I Was Constantly Troubled By A Collage Of North American Southern Behaviors And Notions In Reference To The Inhumanity Of People. There Were Questions That I Did Not Know How To Ask But Could, In My Young, Unsophisticated Way, Articulate A Series Of Answers.