If you thought choosing between Michigan and Michigan State was tough just wait until you have to choose between Tutsi and Hutu or some other similar tribal rivalry...
Like choosing between the Bloods and Crips...........
I watched a West African co-worker chastise a black American woman who insisted her daughter wanted to move to Africa after the 2000 election; he was here on some type of temporary refugee visa which allowed him to work, and he lobbied with a group to make them permanent. He volunteered to tell this co-worker’s naïve daughter exactly what life is like in Africa.
There was a great book I read a while back called Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
One of the things he said (that he was later excoriated for) was that the degree of racism was exacerbated by extreme tribalism. He was there during Rwandan Genocide, and he had originally not thought that he could be imperiled as a black man (since he was black like they were) but came to find out that even having facial features that could be attributed to one tribe or another would be enough to make him fear for his life.
He wrote with a heartfelt genuineness how great it was to be an American in America, and was turned on by many in the leftist component of the black community for the perceived criticism of blacks and Africa.