I was raised Catholic but my father's people were Methodist so we went to both churches.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at least since the early nineteenth century when 3 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

In my family we were Americans we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

My dad was a Methodist minister.