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I am not an African. I am an American.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.