My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena Queen of the Jungle.'
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage as I like to put it and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
