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Posted on 07/20/2006 4:50:22 PM PDT by Loyalist
ABUJA, Nigeria — African and black American leaders meeting this week debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the continent — securing African citizenship for American descendants of Africans taken away as slaves.
The idea came out of a summit bringing African governments and the U.S. private sector together in search of partnerships to end Africa's poverty. Presidents from 12 African countries attended the four-day conference, along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
“Just as the people of different races in America have a place they call home, I believe we should have a place we call our ancestral home,” said Hope Masters, daughter of the U.S. civil rights campaigner for whom the Leon Sullivan Summit is named.
Anthony Archer, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based lawyer, is heading a committee to consider how citizenship could be awarded.
“Dual citizenship will start the process of mutual and spiritual reconciliation of differences between the two continents that came as a result of slavery,” he said. “If we can feel like we really belong, we'll feel more joyful about participating.”
Key challenges include determining the ancestral homelands of black Americans, Ms. Masters said. The upheaval of the slave trade left many without knowledge of their place of origin.
One possibility is granting continent-wide citizenship to slave descendants through the African Union, Mr. Archer said. Another is to work for citizenship of blocs of countries through regional organizations. It was unclear what rights would be granted under those scenarios.
A third proposal would have countries grant citizenship independently to those who seek it.
Ms. Masters said the proposal will be further developed before the next summit in 2008. She said African leaders support the concept, noting that Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged black Americans “to see Africa as your home.”
Among the Americans attending the Sullivan meeting in Abuja were executives from companies including Chevron Corp., Coca-Cola Co., General Motors Corp., and DaimlerChrysler AG.
Their complaints might shut down the nonsense about Afrocentrism and returning to Mother Africa once and for all.
Boating...not Bussing..
It could be good for Africa if they didn't end up with Charles Taylor wannabes. Besides, if I were a slave descendant you couldn't pay me enough to live there.
This is Scrappleface, right? No, I am being serious here - this is Scrappleface, right?
And I'll Pay the freight to send Jesse and Rev. Al Home . . .
If they take up African citizenship, then they should be deported to Africa, at their own expense. Our society cannot survive with all this dual citizenship jazz.
Hmmmm, ask yourself why they just want American decendants of slaves. African slaves were disbursed very widely, but they just want the American ones. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Just what we need. Another set of hyphanated americans with dual citizenship.
The CFR at work in memory of Rhodes, no doubt.
I would serioulsy laugh at anyone of them that returned to The Republic of Benin... Benin uhad the habit of going inland for slave hunts every month...
Truth is, their own people sold them out...
"Hmmmm, ask yourself why they just want American decendants of slaves. African slaves were disbursed very widely, but they just want the American ones. Things that make you go hmmmmm.'
An opportunity to gain some citizens and investment from the healthiest, richest, best educated, and most accomplished blacks to ever exist on the planet.
WOW!! For each one that leaves, tuck an illegal alien under each arm.
we have a winner
If the welfare isn't there along with cable TV, that ain't happening.
This is a great idea. And it should be mentioned whenever the topic of reparations come up.
Let the slogan be "Reparations and Repatriation!"
I suspect it would involve dual citizenship. I wonder if they will have to pay taxes to "Mother Africa" as a result.
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