Strong Black Coffee: Poetry & Prose to Enlighten, Encourage, and Entertain Americans of African Descent

The term African-American to me implies that we are a people whose original home was Africa, i.e. we are recent immigrants from her hallowed shores. The implication therefore is this: that we are secondary U.S. citizens.

In reality we are descended from a people whose original home was Africa. The journey from freedom to bondage, to freedom again changed us. The rape and miscegenation mixed our blood with many of slavery's willing participants from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We used ...