Reply #70: you are conflating unrelated things

[kwassa]

You've had a hard life, very hard indeed.

But, you have NEVER been discriminated against because of your color, and had the deck stacked against you from the beginning regardless of your personal circumstances. You had individually bad circumstances, very bad.

Michelle came from very poor circumstances, and done very well, but this has nothing to do with pride in one's country.

The reason many African-Americans are not proud of their country is because of the way that they have been treated as a race over the past 389 years since they first landed here as slaves. In many cases they are still separate and unequal. What is there to be proud in a country that still tolerates this?