HUMONGOUS: [quote author=Jimbo link=board=meetgreet;num=1068575032;start=0#10 date=11/22/03 at 02:04:23]HUMONGASS:
Just because you are SUDANESE does not make you a spokeperson for ALL africans NOR ALL people of African heritage. To make a BLANKET statement like you did shows YOUR ignorance, not mine. Views can be similar, even though the life experiences that shaped those viewpoints may be somewhat DIFFERENT. To give apartheid as an example of oppression in Africa, yet to ignore the hundreds of years of slavery imposed on African-heritaged people here and the repercussions it is STILL having in modern American society shows how "insulated" you are from the real world, not how knowledgeable you are about it.
As far as the picture of what I have been FED, you have to NOT be from Africa to be able to really see the contrasts. Reading so-called books on Africa generally available in libraries here or watching so-called documentaries or other media presentations, show no MODERN Africa only the "traditional" Africa as if the continent is STILL caught up in some sort of time warp. RARELY do we see any semblance of an Africa that has ANY modern cities, industry, amenities, roads or even people that wear SHOES and the stereotypes are still being perpertrated. Go to the libraries and see for yourself. I dont need to.
By the way, the mis-spelling of your LPSG name was INTENTIONAL. When you speak as an "authority", try and expand your brain past your pre-conceived, insulated and slanted viewpoints and get some FACTS.[/quote]
LOL resorting to school boy name calling underscores my point, that you are indeed ignorant. by misspelling my name what did you hope to achieve? what was your objective? was it achieved? your calling me silly little names does not take away from the fact that you still haven't a clue as to what you are speaking about. you misinterpreted everything i said. you missed the whole point. no i am not a spokesperson nor did i claim to be. i did not give apartheid as an example of oppression, i gave it as an example to show how people who have lived under that system and support it have different views that folks who live here in the united states in a supposedly free society. you missed the whole point. obviously your reading comprehension is not what it should be. i do not know what it is you are TRYING TO argue. you are way off course. my point is that the two societies have views that differ. and i gave examples of why. thank you.

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