That's something they can't take away from you, no matter what. Because they can take everything else away from you, but they can't take that away.
Dispossession is a persistent theme of African-American life and literature.
It may also be part of what Ald. That ought not to be surprising. And it is not accurate to say that this all needed 135 years ago, with the surrender of the Confederacy and the end of the Civil War. Tillman, with the support of about 20 colleagues, has called for City Council hearings on the issue of reparations for slavery. Probably the most prominent advocate of reparations is Randall Robinson, head of TransAfrica, the organization that led the drive for American sanctions against apartheid South Africa.