Tafadhali, repeat only in whispers.
There was that ever-present image of white men waltzing into Afrika where they were outnumbered a million to one by black men, but in short time had effeciently taken over that continent.
They built modern cities and homes among millions of black people living in grass huts with goats and chickens, brought in schools and the written word and new languages and newspapers among millions of illiterate black people. Centuries earlier they had given free rides across the Atlantic to blacks to pick cotton and cut sugar-cane in the Americas. But after hundreds of years in the Americas these blacks became carbon-copies (cheap imitations of whites), did not create a legitimate culture, and walked into the 21st century wearing their britches down to their knees -- displaying their stink bloomers and butts in public. With self-hate they hurled the word "nigger" at each othr in public, causing many civilized humans a bothersome thought: "Can there be some genetic difference between whites and blacks impeding the latter from reaching the intellectual level of the former?"
"Why in the 1990s -- when whites were walking in space -- did the Hutu tribe in Rwanda take machetes and savagely chop hundreds of thousands of helpless Tutsi men, women, and children to pieces? And why were other tribes in other Afrikan countries kidnapping children and forcing them to become child-soldiers and killers in tribal wars?"
Former President George W. Bush ignored that unflattering image and that bothersome thought. He judged Colin Powell and Condolezza Rice, both Afrikan Americans, by their deportment and ability, selecting the former to be United States Secretary of State, and the latter to be his National Security Advisor, later to be United States Secretary of State; positions so high in the United States government that no other President had dared defy the country's anti-black racists and select Afrikan Americans to fill.
Let history record it.
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