[Last Dakotan]

I went to engineering graduate school with a couple genuine black guys. I knew they were genuine because they were directly from Africa. Ghana to be precise. Our Jesuit University was in the middle of the worst inner city neighborhoods you can imagine.

What I thought was interesting was how they related to the local black population - they were terrified. Scared sh**less. Kinda felt sorry for them, and hung out together when we could.

The only other student interaction I thought was odder was the Palestinian who told me at a faculty mixer that he would kill every Jew in the room if he could. That'll make you stare at the bottom of your beer mug.

[Hugin]

Africans cannot understand what it is to be black due to not having experienced the legacy of slavery. Or something like that.

Then again, I remember reading about a white immigrant from South Africa who got in trouble for checking African-American on his school application forms. He pointed out that his family had lived in Africa for hundreds of years. The liberal administrators were not happy.

[matthew fuller]

"The only other student interaction I thought was odder was the Palestinian who told me at a faculty mixer that he would kill every Jew in the room if he could."

And where, may I ask, was he from?

[ozzymandus]

When I was in college I was friends with an exchange student from Ethiopia. He was as “authentic” as could be. I couldn't repeat some of the stuff he said about the inner-city criminals our college “requited” to play basketball. He hated them.

[Scotswife]

“I went to engineering graduate school with a couple genuine black guys. I knew they were genuine because they were directly from Africa.”

I listened to a black priest from Nigeria discuss his confusion over the “black” holidy called Kwanzaa.

He thought it was hilarious it was being sold as an African thing - he never heard of it until he came over here.