Black Folks “The Root” Would Like To Remove From Black History
[ Michael Steele and Clarence Thomas are listed with, among others, Idi Amin, D.C. Sniper John Allen Mohammad, Robert Mugabe. ]
As happy as we are for the nation to get its yearly reminder that black people do exist in the context of American history, there’s a growing list of characters that has us harking back to Zora Neale Hurston’s famous words: “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” Indeed, while we love our own, we sure do dream of erasing a few of them from the history books. Some are politicos, others are pop culture figures, but they all share one common attribute: They’re embarrassing.