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 first came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said: "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, the tables had been turned. We had the Bible and they had the land. -- Hayati Mzee aka Jomo Kenyatta [Muigai Wa Ngegi] To all my friends new and old, I hope we keep in touch. Thanks for all the good conversation. We Black folk, our history and our present being, are a mirror of all the manifold experiences of America. What we want, what we represent, what we endure is what America is. If we black folks perish, America will perish. If America has forgotten her past, then let her look into the mirror of out consciousness and she will see the living past living in the present, for ourmemories go back, through our black folk of today, through the recollection of our black parents, and through the tale of slavery told by our black grandparents, to the time when none of us, black or white, lived in this fertile land. The differences between black folk and white folk are not blood or color, and the ties that bind us are deeper then the ones that separate us. The common road of hope which we all traveled has brought us into a stronger kinship than any words, laws, or legal claims. |
