Since The Day Martin Luther King Was

My Father Was The Funniest Man I Ever Met. He Made Redd Foxx Look Like An Undertaker.

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.

I Think Literacy Is Everything.

The Dominican Republic Says 'we're Black Behind The Ears.' And In Mexico, 'there's A Black Grandma In The Closet.' They Know, They've Just Been Intermarrying For A Long Time. But If We Did The Dna Of Everyone In Mexico A Whole Lot Of People Would Have A Whole Lot Of Black In Them.

In The Old Days, You Lived In One Neighborhood, You Knew All Your Neighbors And Your Daughter Married The Guy Next Door. That Was Social And Economic Progress. That Model Is Gone Now. We Also Had A World Order That Was Fraught But Fairly Stable.