Has America been perfect? Yeah, sure. Have African Americans, existed in Nirvanna? Of course not. But blacks have enjoyed many privileges and opportunity in America than most people in most times ever had. People can concentrate on negavives, but there is aspect to the rainbow that is often overlooked.
“A person born in America, descendant of American slavery, has enjoyed a lifestyle that is better than 99.8% of all humans that have ever lived, Not only is your life BETTER than it would have been than if you lived in Western Africa, the COLD fact is, you would not exist at ALL had it never been for the abomination that was slavery.”
That concurs with the opinion of a black man, who just happened to be the Washington Post’s Africa correspondent.
The book is “Out of America, A Black Man Confronts Africa,” by Keith Richburg. Very interesting reading (if you can still find it.) Essentially, he was sick of see mutilated bodies of Tutsi floating by on the Kagera River at one minute intervals. Lots of insight on the warlords and kleptocracies etc. Highly recommended.
You know my dad told me growing up that yeah this nation had a past but I was lucky to grow up in a nation like the US for a lot of people come and die trying to get here, this coming from a man that endured what these people are complaining about, and he did endure it for I heard some of the stories when I was young. What I am trying to say is that looking and living in the past while not bettering yourself is not the way to live life, what happened back then cant be taken back and yeah life was hard back then if you were not WASP male in parts of the nation, but what is done is done, and I have a choice I can live with my head up my ass living in the past, blaming some white man, or live for tomorrow and use the opportunity this nation has to offer, I choose the 2nd option.