This longing to attain a self conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. And in the merging, he desires neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not africanize america, for america has too much to teach the world and africa. He would not bleach his negro soul in the flood of white americanism, for he knows that negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a negro and an american without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows and without having the door of opportunity closed roughly in his face. So. No matter the smile, no matter the grin, no matter the bow, there is no safety. No hiding place. No matter what mask we wear, we blacks are damned if we do and damned if we dont. As Ralph Ellison says in the beginning of his novel, invisible man, we black americans have no guarantee that we exist at all. I am an invisible man. No, im not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am i one
Here lies jacob at the end of the road. This man with his bare hands, he has built the highways, the tunnels, the bridges of this country. And with his bare feet, he printed all those footpaths running through the bush and farms. Here lies jacob at the end of the road. He said to those mothers squatting next to the grave, with their eyes solemn and the veils on their faces, he said, wipe your tears, my sisters. Lift up your veils. Stand up. Stand up, my brothers, and let us all sing. Let us sing because jacob, at last, is a better man. He hasnt got our troubles, he hasnt got our problems because jacob, at last, has reached home. Thats the home for the black man, is when they dig a hole to bury him, is when they press our face against the cold earth and we smile with our teeth out. That will be the only time we will be happy, brother, is when we are dead. Let me do you a favor. Have you ever been to skys place . Come with me. Ill do you a few shots there. Lets go drown our sorrows at sk
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