[PGalt]

Great article. Thanks for posting it.

[Hila]

Thank you for posting, truly educational read. What a terrible situation, mercy on Africa!

[Ditter]

I have friends & relatives who vacation in Africa as often as they can.

[LTCJ]

Ping

Highly recommended.

[Matchett-PI]

An estimated 11,100,000 black slaves were brought to the Americas. Their destinations were:

Brazil 4,000,000
Spanish Empire 2,500,000
British West Indies 2,000,000
French West Indies 1,600,000
Dutch West Indies 500,000
North America & U.S. 500,000

Many people talk casually about "millions" of slaves being brought to America as part of an "African Holocaust." In fact, fewer than five percent of the Africans who made the "middle passage" came to what is now the United States and were better cared for than in any other part of the New World. (Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade, Oxford University Press, 1997.)

Source: http://www.amren.com/999issue/999issue.html

[Rays_Dad]

bump for a heck of a read

[semaj]

With all of its hang-ups and warts, I'll take America any day.

[BunnySlippers]

Bump for those who missed it.

[FreedomPoster]

Don't know if this is anything you'd be interested in, but it is very well written and extremely illuminating.

[scan58]

This is worth another bump.

[prognostigaator]

weekend read bump

[RightField]

A "just-back-from-vacation-must-catch-up-on-FR-articles" bump for later read

[bert]

This is a good piece except he confuses countries with continents. English-Americans are not comprable with African Americans.

Who is the king of Africa? Does Africa have a president? What is the capitol of Africa?

Questions for the American media to ask on a Saturday in a mall.

[TheOtherOne]

Great read. Thank you for posting.

[freeangel]

Interesting read. It should be required reading in schools. It certainly makes me count my blessings.

[Johnbalaya]

This article is excellent and truly sad, for two reasons. First, there is the image of a brutal Africa that haunts him. That despite the rays of hope that are evident to him, it is overcast by the blood drenched inhumanity that surrounds him.

Secondly, it is sad because it is also a personal story of a denial and loss. He searches for an ancestral beacon that extends beyond slavery, for something far more noble than chains and the bartering of human life, for a continent and a people that would show to him an ancestral nobility beyond that which he has experienced as an American. But the images of violence and brutality haunt him when he closes his eyes and he realizes that this is not the Africa of his hearts imagining. His pain is evident as he turns his back on it. That for him to concede that the pain of slavery led to a far nobler existence for black Americans, compared to the children of Africa today, was heart wrenching. He shows this well in his excellent writing.

Thanks Valin. This article was a great read and I'm going to go out and find this man's book. He is a most excellent writer.

[ThanhPhero]

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