The difference between my friends list on FF and FB. Message thread going on in FB: "Those mobile phone commercials....Am I The Only Person in the world, that doesn't have a clue what 3G is????" With an ongoing conversation saying all a phone should be used for is talking. LOL!
"Such is the prevalence of that view of Africa that several years ago Keith Richburg, an African-American correspondent to Africa for the Washington Post, wrote a book entitled Out of Africa in which he proclaimed: Thank God my ancestors got out, because now, I am not one of them. In short, thank God I am an American". He went on to say "I am a stranger here [in Africa], adrift. I look like them . . but I cannot understand what it is to be one of them. True, my ancestors came from this place, these are my distant cousins. But a chasm has opened up, a chasm of 400 years and 10,000 miles. Nothing in my upbringing, has instilled in me any sense of what it must be like to be an African." Although his words caused controversy it seems from the conversations I've had, Richburg's view is not all that uncommon. The prejudices are keenly felt by African migrants, or those born to them. An acquaintance of Nigerian parentage who was born and raised in Washington DC told me that, while he had...
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- tiffany
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