Angelou further assures in Ebony (1993) that We, who are in positions to inform, to form and to influence, must let the people in the worst areas know that we care about them and they will respond, But people can tell if you are sincere or not. The healing must first begin within African-American households, Angelou says, where an acrimonious gulf rages between many Black men and Black women. She implores both sides to look carefully at the schism that divides them and ask: Who is being served by the discord? We were stolen, sold and bought together from the African continent. We got on the slave ships together. We lay back to belly in the holds of the slave ships in each others excrement and urine together, sometimes died together, and our lifeless bodies thrown overboard together, Angelou says with a tear at the edge of her voice. Narrowing her eyes, as though seeing the harrowing scene in her mind, Angelou continues. Or if we did survive, we survived and got off that ship together and stood on the auction block together. After that, we got up before sunrise together, stopped work after sunset together. It is ridiculous to even opine that one section of our community can be separated from the other section and have any health in it. “.
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