Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no … - John Henrik Clarke

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I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

John Henrik Clarke

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

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