The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

Black history is American history.