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...Brown initially considered moving to an African nation, including South Africa.
However, after visiting both countries, she says, Mexico felt more like home.....
There was an American writer who went over to Africa, the land of his roots, and fully thought it would be like going home, that he would be among his "own people".
He happened to be over there during the Rwanda Genocide, and what he found was, melanin content of the skin was VERY important to survival. Depending on where you were, having more or less (not some or none at all) could be a death sentence. If you were a lighter skinned black in an area with darker skinned tribes (or vice versa) you could be murdered with a machete, no questions asked.
Just as bad were facial features. You might be just as light-dark or darker, but if you had certain facial characteristics, you could just as easily be on the wrong end of a machete swing. And the writer nearly was, because his facial characteristics were closer to the other tribe.
It gave him an entirely new perspective on race in America. When he returned, he gave thanks for the USA, and didn't view it from as racist a perspective as he had before.