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Full Pledge Commments from Les
| I was reading about this black journalist named Keith Richburg, who served for three years as the African bureau chief for The Washington Post. Here is what he had to say about his African roots in his book, Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, "this strange place defies even the staunchest of optimists; it drains you of hope ..." He goes on to say, "Talk to me about Africa and my black roots and my kinship with my African brothers and I'll throw it back in your face, and then I'll rub your nose in the images of rotting flesh." His book concludes: "I have been here, and I have seen -- and frankly, I want no part of it. .... By an accident of birth, I am a black man born in America, and everything I am today -- my culture and my attitudes, my sensibilities, loves and desires -- derives from that one simple and irrefutable fact." Those blunt statements by that black person in part makes it very very perplexing to me why all these blacks here in America have such a fixation about Africa and why they are forever whining about their ancestors being brought over here as slaves. After statements such as those, one would think the blacks over here would be very grateful that their ancestors were brought over here. I bet a lot of the blacks in Africa probably wish that their ancestors were brought over here as slaves. |
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