When an ostensibly educated person like Mark Krikorian says something like this:
During slavery and Jim Crow, a number of blacks moved abroad, to Europe or Africa or the USSR, but again, these movements never gained much traction, and many of those who did go regretted it, discovering that they were more American than they'd realized.Really? Slaves moved to Africa and Europe? With what, their hard earned savings?
One of the great contributions of John Hope Franklin was that he helped weave black history into the larger American narrative. Then you read something like this and you realize how far we have to go. But I also can't help thinking that this level of ignorance for an educated person is somehow willful, a symptom of conservative white guilt that so often manifests by trying to either obscure, minimize or simply ignore the evils of chattel slavery in the United States. Liberals have their own annoying foibles when it comes to white guilt, but obviously I've found those much easier to deal with. At least most of the time, their ears and eyes are open on the subject.
H/T Instaputz
-- A. Serwer
