Yes, an intentionally provokative title just to get you to check it out.
Oh, I should have said "Afro-Americans" to be PC. Screw that! They have about as much connection with Africa as I do with Scotland, which is 0.
My point is this:
Tonight I have been watching all the 9/11 tributes and have seen American blacks crying their eyes out, listened to a choked up Joe Morgan.
If there is an upside to 9/11, it is the shock to black Americans that, Yes, this is their country. We are all Americans. Welcome home.
This does not excuse transgressions in the past, but those acts were committed before my family and most families I know were even here.
My point, it makes me so happy and encouraged to see black Americans cry for their country. Let us move forward as a nation, to be both religiously and racially blind (all men under God, created equally) so that our country can potentiate itself.
Welcome, my black friends to America, you are America, as I am. We are one, indivisible.