[libertylover]

"They have no idea what part of Africa they came from..."

I have no idea what part of Europe I came from and I don't care. It doesn't matter. I am an American. Period.

[aardvark1]

The fact that someone has black skin means that at some point, someone in the ancestral line lived in Africa. This has as much relationship to a person's current life as the fact that my name reveals European ancestry. But because I was the youngest child in the family and my father married late and my mother's parents died early, I didn't even know my grandparents let alone European ancestors from 300 years ago. I don't see how those ancestors define who I am in 21st Century America.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Agreed and Amen.