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Is the author going back to Kenya or will he live in the “racist” United States?

My experience in the 13 years I have lived in this country -- and I know I'm not alone -- is that many Americans of European descent warm up quickly when they find out that the black man standing in front of them is not an African-American.

. . . which pretty much disposes of the issue of "racism," doesn't it!
The "racial tension" is actually a cultural one between descendants of black slaves and others. A whole lot of patronizing goes on both ways - and especially from descendants of black slaves to white Americans.

The comfort between Africans and American whites earns us dislike from some African-Americans, who see us not only as betrayers, but also collaborators in white America's refusal to provide the equal employment and education they have been fighting for. Adebayo adds that the way universities use Africans to count in meeting affirmative action quotas for African-Americans has also deepened the conflict between Africans and African-Americans.

Thomas Sowell has pointed out that American descendants of black slaves consider black Jamaicans "black Jews" because of their cultural differences. Again, why would Jesse Jackson be happy with black Africans and black Jamaicans going around without a chip on their shoulder towards whites - and proving thereby that African American economic distinctiveness is not "racial" but cultural in origin.
It seems to me that not enough African Americans ever get enough distance from the country to be able actually to discover America. We need a lot more Thomas Sowells - or, failing that, a few more post-1975 Elridge Cleavers.