"When my brother married a black American, my mother was scandalized," said my Nigerian friend "I". Really? Why? "Because he was marrying a slave," she replied. "We are not slaves, like American Blacks," she explained. I was kinda dumbfounded, I have to confess. To me, a black is a black. But not to African Blacks.
American Blacks are considered slaves by their African counterparts. And they don't marry them. They marry within their African station. I explained that I had dated blacks and Jews, but I knew full well -- without a word's ever having being spoken -- that I wasn't to marry one.
Fascinating.
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