It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6 or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you….I picked cotton, I carried it to the market, I built the railroads under someone else’s whip for nothing….The American soil is full of the corpses of my ancestors….Why is my freedom, my citizenship, in question now?
