Recall, I’d been curious about whether any attention was bing paid to the African American reaction to the terrorist attacks. AlterNet observes: Old Glory’s New Appeal to Blacks — “For a younger generation of African Americans like Jones, now may be the first time they have felt such a level of identification and belonging in their national homeland. In the absence of national conflict, younger blacks have often felt like outsiders in America as they have had to deal with America’s history of racial oppression and remnants of racial discrimination that are an everyday reality.

But the terrorist attacks, which killed people of all racial backgrounds, religions and nationalities, have forced many African Americans to come to grips with their Americanness.”