In watching CNN’s “Black In America,” I could not have been more turned off than after watching the first few seconds of the piece itself. Soledad O’Brien, who acted as the correspondent on this 4-hour documentary, started the piece off with a look into the “Rand” family, a black family dating back to the latter days of slavery. In those initial minutes, the documentary explained how the Rand family’s paternal roots originate with a white slave owner, and it showed the first meeting between one of the Rand family’s black members and one of their white members. It was touching, but what on earth did it have to do with being “Black in America?”

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