I have been wrestling with these issues for a number of years and believe these questions are vital not just to the future of peoples of Africa descent in the US but to the society as a whole. As well this topic may seem a little early, however as dailykos is so wonderfully congested, I find it necessary to get a leap on diaries relevant to Afri-US History Month by posting a week early.
Note: My use of the term Afri-US denotes Black people in the US who are linked to the society through ties of history, culture and identification with those African based cultures grounded in the experience of slavery in the US. African American denotes, for me, the larger community of peoples of African descent in the Western hemisphere.
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