and if you don’t believe in God, it certainly helps not to believe that our rights are God given, rather than government permitted.
Don't you see the intractable logical problem there? I suspect Toure claims to be an atheist. Yet, through his belief that rights are granted by other men in lofty political posts he's reverting to the Divine Right of Kings concept.
This proves to me that despite the Emancipation Proclamation Blacks were never freed from the slave mentality. Here we are nearly 150 years after the Civil War and many Black minds are still not free to explore the glorious philosophical concepts embodied in the Declaration of Independence.