My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Mr. Cunningham would have gone over to his neighbors and had a family meeting with them and talked it out over cake. ... Happy Days

My family talks about it. You know, their friends talk about it and neighbors talk about it ... more humiliating than anything I've ever lived through.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.