The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
“Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?”
“I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'”