Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140425:03:15:00
This is why the anthropologist carol steck calls it fictive kin. even when they didn't have blood lines to which we were tied to other people we fabricated and generated in the best sense of that world play uncles, play daddies, play mamas. we established beyond blood and biology connections of intimacy that affirmed our connection to one another. and here it is, that the black family existed as an illegal institution in america because america wanted to expropriate the labor of black people and in order to do so it had to deny us the legitimacy of our familial connection. so isn't it ironic t...