>>He’s interested in questions of identity: What does it mean to be a black person or an African person? “You know, you got to have the race conversation,” he told me, describing how his parents prepared him for the world. “And you can’t have that without having the slavery conversation. And with the slavery conversation comes a question of, O.K., so what about before that? And then when you ask that question, they got to tell you about a place that nine times out of 10 they’ve never been before. So you end up hearing about Africa, but it’s a skewed version of it. It’s not a tactile version.”
The slavery question, like why don’t black people condemn African tribe leaders for capturing other black Africans from other tribes and selling them?
Like why there is still slavery in Africa today?
Those questions?
“Like why there is still slavery in Africa today?
Those questions?”
Yes, and like why the white Christian man is the only one on the planet to make an effort to end slavery, but that isn’t hate-whitey enough for today.