People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."
Darryl PinckneyIf your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.
Darryl PinckneyObama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear arms," but he did. In the meantime, the clear and present danger is the Republicans in the Senate. A lot of politics isn't heroic, it's as day-to-day as our lives themselves. We always want to make the Byronic choices, but Byron himself was not Byronic all the time either.
Darryl PinckneyI think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.
Darryl Pinckney