Reply #1: wow... I'm speechless

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"I am not a nigger, I am an African."

:wow: :wow: :wow: Damn, Kofi. Just, damn.

"Africans experience race differently from African Americans. Africans experience a patronising but helpful racism, as opposed to the hostile, threatened and defensive kind that African Americans grow up with. Racism wears a smile when meeting an African; it glares with hostility when meeting an African American."

...Indeed, Nelson Mandela once said that without African American support, ending apartheid would have taken much longer. But one will not find organisations in African countries that reciprocate – for example, seeking to end a racialised judicial system in the US that sees more black men in prison than in college.

This is an interesting piece. As someone who has had African friends (and dang near an African step-daddy TWICE) my entire life, I can't personally relate to the stereotype that Africans don't like African Americans (sounds very similar to the blacks don't like Hispanics story that I don't buy either) but this is a great read.