She faces such things head on. One could argue that the African-American legacy is the very road we're driving on. The free labor of African Americans during the enslavement and cheap labor during the early part of this country's history allowed this nation to build an infrastructure that is unlike any other infrastructure in the world. So as a result of that, most of America is paved. There are phone lines.
Senegalese twists start to shake.
No, they're everybody's. But trying to find a definition for 'African American' is a very serious discussion. In Detroit, much of that discussion began over 30 years ago when Charles Wright, a local doctor and civil rights activist, returned from a heated voting rights march in Selma, Alabama. I told them that freedom was not just getting white people to let you into their hotels and restaurants. Freedom was creating your own restaurants and hotels and then inviting the white man in.