I can’t pledge allegiance to a flag that has no allegiance to me. It’s pretty much that simple. I can’t say that I support a government that doesn’t support me in all of my freedoms as an American born woman; not as a black woman. As an American woman. My oldest record . . . my oldest ancestor on record is sitting at Georgetown University, and she arrived in the United States in 1704. I ought not to be having any conversations about anybody about my Americanness and my rights as an American. It was they say the law of the land. Okay it was a bad law then and it’s a bad law now and the excuse that it was the law does not negate the damage of the law. That just gives people a pass. I’m not passing nobody. Link to Biography