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.
“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”
“I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.”