As a veteran helicopter (MEDEVAC) pilot of Mogadishu I can say with certainty that the place is and always will be a shithole. We had one black pilot in our unit, when we left he said he would never refer to himself as an African-American again. He said he was an Black-American! He wanted no ties to those people whatsoever, tribalism is complete violence.
“”He said he was an Black-American!””
Smart man. A strict definition of an African American is having ancestors who came to the U.S., from Africa as slaves. Has any black American ever provided that proof of ancestry? What on earth is wrong with being called just what your fellow pilot said - Black American. They were negroes, they were darkies, they were blacks - are they going to settle on African American or come up with something else? What’s left?