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Bertie does that. He pours everything into the person he is talking to, as though their very opinion means life or death for him.
“You know that there are no black people in Africa,” she said. Most Americans, weaned on the myth of drawable lines between human beings, have to sit with that statement. It sounds nonsensical to our ears. Of course there are black people in Africa. There is a whole continent of black people in Africa. How could anyone not see that? “Africans are not black,” she said. “They are Igbo and Yoruba, Ewe, Akan, Ndebele. They are not black. They are just themselves. They are humans on the land. That is how they see themselves, and that is who they are.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Africans are not black,” she said. “They are Igbo and Yoruba, Ewe, Akan, Ndebele. They are not black. They are just themselves.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“but there are no statues of Rommel in Germany. “They are ashamed,” he said. “The question is, why aren’t we?”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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