Never African Again

To deny your race, is to deny yourself. In Never African Again, Gerald Early told the reader  "Our profound past of being African, which we must never forget, must be balanced by the complex fate of being American, which we can never deny or, worse, evade. For we must accept who and what we are and the forces and the conditions that have made us this, not as defeat or triumph, not in shame or with grandiose pride, but as the tangled, strange, yet poignant and immeasurable record of an imperishable human presence." Many African Americans today are unsure of who they are as an African. We call ourselves African Americans but we do not really  know about the African side of being an African American. History books leave out our history, with the exception of briefly mentioning slavery and the civil rights movement;therefore we grow up without knowing who we are, and the power and strength of the people that we came from. We, as the next generation of African American leaders, must learn who we are completely as a person of African descent and as an American so that we do not deny our Past nor our Present, for these to elements combined will help map out our future.

Never African Again, Gerald Early--Revelations

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