As a people, African Americans have continuously struggled with the achievement of economic, political and social empowerment here in the United States. Our lack of success in this objective has been due largely to our inability to form a cohesive and collaborative body as a vehicle towards attainment of this goal. Historically, we have been a people that have been very divided. This division goes as far back as the motherland when brothers sold brothers for their own personal gain into slavery. This is something many African Americans do not like to admit. We rather tell the tale that the “white man” went into Africa and took humans kicking and screaming from their families and transported them into chattel slavery here in the “New World.” However, anyone who is honest will admit that there were Africans selling Africans to the Portuguese and other slave traders for a profit.
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