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Originally posted by JJSP01
I wouldn't go to Africa just to get away from the oppressions of 1919, cuz you never know, that same oppression you're running from could follow you there. If the majority of the blacks had relocated to Africa during the 1920s, I can only imagine how long it would have been before the whites followed us, just to try to oppress us in our "own" land. Or you could look at the flip side, if we were all in Africa, remember we would still be viewed as "Americans" by the true "Africans", can't assume we'd all live peacefully over there...true Africans don't always get down with African-Americans...it's still that way today.
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Have we heard of a little thing known as colonialism? Most African countries were catching hell from their colonizers. Our stuggles were similar, yet even more complicated by tribal (hate that term, but I will use it for the purpose of this discussion) allegiences.
Would I go? Back then, I probably would have been the first person on the boat. My thinking would have been, anything was better than this.
However, if I was privy to how African countries and the US would develop, I would have stayed here. I'm sorry. If we remove the idealized goggles of this monolithic "Africa" that exists only in our imagination. We would see that we are a lot better off in America. Sad, but true (and when I say true, i mean the truth according to abaici).
**For some odd reason, I feel compelled to explain my screenname. It's a Hausa name (one of the primary groups in Nigeria)***