Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Al-Yasha Ilhaam The term "African American" is something of a contradiction, like "military intelligence." America gives us the short end, and most of us aren't informed enough about Africa in the past or present to know what we're looking up to or down upon, as the case may be. Thou art lukewarm, Negroes, neither hot nor cold, and thus will be spewed out of both America and Africa, to paraphrase the Big Man.But about ten years ago I met someone who convinced me that there is such a person as an African American. He was elderly and had suffered a stroke which disabled his right side, but he had complete mental clarity and a vision for the role of African Americans in Africa that he intended to see through, as far as he could. He told me that once we Blacks in the Diaspora really took an...
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