[arasina]

Africa. Birthplace of civilization. My ancestral homeland. I came here thinking I might find a little bit of that missing piece of myself. But Africa chewed me up and spit me back out again. It took out a machete and slashed into my brain the images that have become my nightmares. I close my eyes now and I am staring at a young woman atop a pile of corpses.

Has Jesse Jackson been to visit Mother Africa lately (or ever)? Al Sharpton? Maxine Waters? They should. Take their rhetoric with them. See if they come back transformed and grateful to be Americans like this author.

[MEG33]

They go, but to be wined and dined by dictators.

[radiohead]

good article, and what i have been saying for years. there is nothing in africa for me. i'm not an african, afro-american, or anything else. i'm an american. why other blacks don't see the blessings they incur simply by being american, is beyond me.

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Has Jesse Jackson been to visit Mother Africa lately (or ever)? Al Sharpton? Maxine Waters? They should.

They have not missed the inside of a single four-star hotel on the entire continent.

When they head back to the airport, they see only their armoured escort through tinted windows.

[arasina]

Yeah, I guess Jesse has been there, but only to learn from the ruling thugs how to oppress your own people and make money through extortion.