Get real.
We all know that he commandeered a slave ship (the SS Romney) headed here from west Africa in 1995 at the height of the American slave era. He singlehandedly fought off hundreds of white republican sailors who were bringing him and several others (including Al Sharpton) to be enslaved in Charleston, SC.
Once he had successfully overtaken the ship, he outfitted her with solar batteries and guided her through the St. Lawrence seaway all the way to Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan where he began a career as a community organizer and the rest is his story.