By Forrest M. Pritchett Many people wonder why the African American doesn’t settle into their positions in society and work hard to achieve success, just like all the other immigrant groups, who came here to America. This paradigm is called the “immigrant analogy.” The answer is that no other group who voluntarily came here was treated like the Americans from Africa. For even in our moment of legal freedom granted through the Emancipation Proclamation, there was no freedom for many because no one took the time to share the news of the new status of being free, for the enslaved. Most of the ens…
