Afrocentrism and the True Color of an Influential Civilization
There is a need experienced by people of all races and ethnicities to directly claim their origins, their tradition, and their past. This innate human desire sends people of all racial backgrounds barreling through history, grasping straws and shreds of the past to stand united with their racially similar brothers and sisters. America is a melting pot of so many different cultures and ethnicities that it becomes a breeding ground for multiracial families and produces many new races of its own. The United States is extremely racially diverse not only geographically, but within states, counties, and even cities. When a large group of people of the same racial background join together, they create a sect of the population that shares not only a common history, but a desire to learn more about that history and to become empowered in their separatism.
This bonding leads to racial movements such as one that is currently......
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