Reminding me of a brilliant piece by the godlike TNC... 'I claim much more. I claim Fitzgerald, whatever he thought of me, because I see myself in Gatsby. I claim Steinbeck because, whether he likes it or not, I am an Okie. I claim Blake because "London" feels like the hood to me...'
READING: Rajiv Sethi Starts wiþ Ta-Nehisi Coates, & þen Brings in Ralph Ellison to Riff on Claiming Ancestors
An America without black slaves would have still had our First Nations and what America did to them.