>(e.g. my husband's old roomate, >who is ethiopian, and believes >he is "not black" and >doesn't like black people. he >thinks this way because he >has a glorified vision of >his amhara tribe. he also >doesn't speak english but would >be happy to marry a >white american girl.)
i liked that yes, i can agree it isn't very correct. But it goes prove something about us humans. In Roots (i read the book now), Kunta in the beginning wanted to kill the blacks just as much as the whites. He learned quick that they (blacks borned in america as slaves) could love toubou (white man) even more than white man loved himself. And before he was put on the slave ship, Kunta very often thought much about the differences even between his village and the village of the fulani people not far away.