evgenia i w >> i was reading your piece in new yorker and wishing, i wish i could write like that. >>ou can. >> very product to be here with you and happy as well. 400 years since the first slave ships reached the colony of virginia. how would you sum up the state of black america from then till now, right now? >> well, we're still here, and i think that's what matters most. and that's why the question i asked, where do we go from here? i wrote this piece to black people. one, to mark the anniversary of this event that not all of us want to remember, but we must remember. two, to say thank you to all of the people that came after those first 20 some odd negroes who arrived in virginia. who paid such an enormous price for us to be here, two free black men to be on national television on, what's this, thursday night. >> um-hmm. >> and also to try to answer this question, don, we've been trying to answer the whole time, which is how can we live in a land that's made to kill us. we've been told a great deal about our people's strategies of resistance and protest. we've been told of their