Slavery

New York Times has an article about Ghana trying to attract American Blacks in search of their roots:

Many Africans, meanwhile, often fail to see any connection at all between them and African-Americans, or feel African-Americans are better off for having been taken to the United States. Many Africans strive to emigrate; for the past 15 years, the number of Africans moving to the United States has surpassed estimates of the number forced there during any of the peak years of the slave trade.The number of immigrants from Ghana in the United States is larger than that of any other African country except Nigeria, according to the 2000 census.

"So many Africans want to go to America, so they can't understand why Americans would want to come here," said Philip Amoa-Mensah, a guide at Elmina Castle. "Maybe Ghanaians think they are lucky to be from America, even though their ancestors went through so much pain."

Obviously these Ghanaians have never experienced the ultra-racism found in the U.S. A few sessions with Al Sharpton or some other self-appointed Black leader should straighten out these misconceptions that the U.S. is actually a decent place to live.

On a somewhat related note I can only guess what Ghanaians would make of Kwanzaa.