I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. β¨ Black In Latin America by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.
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