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.
“We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.”
“We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.”