From the double life every American Negro must live, as a Negro and as an American, as swept on by the current of the nineteenth while yet struggling in the eddies of the fifteenth century,—from this must arise a painful self-consciousness, an almost morbid sense of personality and a moral hesitancy which is fatal to self-confidence.
Is this the progenitor of the affect I have noted which leaves an American black uncomfortable in mixed company but an African person completely fits in as part of the crowd. African people socialize with white Americans, not with black Americans.
