Desperately wanting to fit in and undoubtedly uncomfortable with his status of “House Negro” in the compassionate eyes of Harry Belafonte and Al Sharpton…
Alex Haley, author of “Roots”
One of the great frauds of modern American letters. In 1976-78, a genial black writer traces his African slave ancestry like a detective story, becomes a revered celebrity, makes untold millions of dollars off the proceeds. Except it isn’t his ancestry, it’s fiction…and much of that stolen as well from other sources.
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
We are Fam-i-ly! The wages of nepotism, movin’ on up the easy way, then crashing & burning