Black Americans carry all this resentment around with them.
You don’t see that in foreign-born black people.
We’ve never been unified about race in America and we will never be.
Coni Rice put the onus on the critics, saying that they are the ones unable to look beyond race. She was great at this.
“No one can tell me how to be black,” Rice said. “I know how to be black. I’ve been black all my life. And again, if you look at a black person and you say that person has to think in a particular way, I don’t care if you are white or you are black and you say that, then you’ve got a prejudice. You can’t see beyond race to give that person the dignity, the ability to think as they might. So I really don’t engage in this. I simply say to people, ‘You know, I’ll think what I think and if you have a problem with that, it’s your problem, not mine.’”