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despise our own people. I remember in grade school being taught to sing a song about the Ashanti
people of Ghana, which went like this:
Good morning, Mr. Johnson
Good morning to you, sir
I’ve just come to ask you
About the Ashanti people
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The people of Ashanti
They have no sense
When the rocket hits upon
They cry Oh, Oh, Oh
Oh, Oh, Ojaleme
Of course, the teachers themselves, who taught us this song which we sang with such relish, did not
know the implication of it all. They did not understand that we had been made to disparage our own
African brothers, to show how stupid they were, that they were not intelligent.
The Jews have made the survival and well-being of Israel a centrepiece of their foreign involvement.
African-Americans leaders are yet to decide how to relate to Africa. The Black Congressional Caucus,
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