African?

When Professor Mack first asked the question "What does it mean to be African?" I began thinking what the actual meaning to that term really meant. Professor Mack started off with giving the history of how it was to be African-American in the United States and how there was much borders between the white man and colored man, even when it came to burying them. He gave much history on slavery in New York, and how the first market so sell slaves was in 1729 on Wall Street. It's very ironic so see that that place is still a big representation of the economy till today. Professor Mack went on to say how in the currently, buildings all over New York city are built on top of African burial grounds, with no respect to dead. And the places that were digging up bodies found the bodies with a lot of abuse because of all the work they had done as slaves. With no respect to the dead, or the slaves during their lifetime, it shows how much Africans were mistreated, and are right now. He said that we need to understand our history in order to understand ourselves, because knowing the meaning of an 'African' will make us find the meaning of ourselves as a whole.