African-Americans are one of the pillars of American civilization.
...Some people (and, as a white Southerner, I agree) say that that African-Americans are part of "God's chosen people".
The Black Man built the South...and with his dignity transformed it into a land of evangelism...a land of God.
And this is a white man speaking...a man who has a big debt to the Black Man...
God has chosen the Black Man like the Jew...the Black Man is a leader to the soul of humanity...
deny it at your own eternal risk.
Here's an Amen:
“I guess being colored doesn't make me NOT like
the same things other folks like who are other races.
So will my page be colored that I write?
Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be
a part of you, instructor.
You are white---
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.
That's American.”
Theme for English B, Langston Hughes (1951)