The BLACK PRICE of Wanting to Belong

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]And one thing you got to give white people credit for, they have been consistent for 404 years. They don't change clothes like we do every 40 years, right? For 40 years, we want to be integrationalists. For 40 years, we want to be nationalists. For 40 years, we want to be revolutionary. For 40 years, we want to be passive. We held a skelter because we don't have no sense of identity. So, we always changing who we are. Do we want to be Americans or do we want to be Africans in Americans? Do we want to be pretends? We are so uncertain of who we are because we want to be accepted by these people. And let me be clear, one of the reasons why American Africans can't really achieve a collective sense of identity is because we want to be accepted by white people.

[00:00:33]See, the reason we're always switching who we are and what we stand for is because whenever white folks give us this illusion of inclusion and we think we're finally going to get in, we will morph into something else just to be accepted.