Saturday, 7 July 2012

AMERICA'S LONG MARCH

AMERICA'S LONG MARCH The American Negro was a unique creation. In the years of slavery, he'd been bought and sold like an animal, and treated like one. The abolition of slavery did not free the Negro. He had no rights a white man was bound to respect. He was despised and what was worse, as the writer James Baldwin once explained, his past made him despise himself. " This past of rope fire, torture and rape, death and humiliation, fear by day and...