The Importance of Being Black in America

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"I learned just how much black people are not a monolith when I went to college," he says. "The ways in which we viewed ourselves and viewed our self-worths were just so vast" West Indians, especially those coming from certain islands, there's competition among the islands,. But Jamaicans, Trinidadians,especially those coming to the States around the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, you know, had a certain pride that they had.

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