I find the updated version of and role model for what a modern black person can be in people like Marcus Samuelsson. He was adopted from Ethiopia to Sweden and moved to the US at twenty-five. Today he serves Swedish gravlax on a bed of Ethiopian injera at his restaurant at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue. Swedes, Harlemers, tourists from all over the world, middle-class Americans, movie stars, rappers, ex-presidents, and Ethiopian immigrants find their way there and dine side by side every evening. Marcus is so used to surfing between his identities that it happens seamlessly.
