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> heart-breakingly tragic African Americans are glad to be living in the US, and they're deeply enmeshed in the fabric of American society. Slavery was a bad p
by fsckboy 4y ago
> heart-breakingly tragic
African Americans are glad to be living in the US, and they're deeply enmeshed in the fabric of American society. Slavery was a bad part of history (and of the present where it still exists) but it's not more "heart-breakingly tragic" that a large number of African Americans today live on fertile land in the Old South any moreso than a large number of Aficans living on all sorts of land including not-so-fertile in Africa.
- bag_boy 4y agoI did not know that African Americans got together, had a vote, and decided that they’re happy to live in the US!
- tomrod 4y agoOr that they voted that living in the South is tragic! In fact, let's take a step back instead of escalating the point. OP used a weird term for the context without qualifying the tragedy. Yes, slavery and other systemic abuses existed and we see echoes and displays of it today. That is tragic. But the simple fact where people live isn't tragic. It's the why they live where they live, to a degree.
- fsckboy 4y agono vote necessary, Americans overwhelmingly are glad to live in America, and African Americans are not different.
- david422 4y agoI wonder if we'll ever get to the point where we can just refer to people as Americans, instead of just some <subset>.
- JohnClark1337 4y ago
- EdwardDiego 4y agoHuh, didn't realise that the Voice of African Americans was a member of HN.
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoI encourage people to read about Liberia. It's one of those hilarious episodes of American- African American relations that makes learning about history so interesting (and they will never teach it at school).
- samvher 4y agoAny keywords or a summary to kick off the readings?