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Yet his position exceeds that audience. Not only that but in morphs into notions of 'thank god for slavery, because if it wasn't for that we'd still be praying to trees or guerillas'. Or into smokey robin's "I define me" diatribe in a def poetry session he did years back. "Go to afrika, they don't even like you", or something to that affect is what he said (what that has to do with him having his right to define himself, to this day leaves me clueless). Or as a tool to wrench you off the notion that people of enslaved afrikan descent should get reparations (which is where gates was summoned).i really don't think gates has much credibility in the black community. his main audience is whites.