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“Thank God our grandpappies caught that boat!” is a line generally attributed to late boxing great Muhammad Ali. It appears, however, that it might’ve actually been uttered by rival George Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, in 1974. Regardless, the meaning is the same. The man was happy his ancestors ended up in America — even if it was slavery that brought them here. (The issue arose because Ali and Foreman were at the time in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight title fight.)
Someone else who learned this is a black American woman who, distressed about the “racist” United States, moved to Ghana. How’d it go? Well, she didn’t exactly find her Wakanda.
In fact, she complained, there are horror-movie-worthy creepy-crawlies of the four- and eight-legged varieties getting into your room at night. Bribery is expected. Poverty is rife, and people try to scam you out of money. Electricity and other services are unreliable. Why, she even griped about the lack of either (it’s hard to decipher) SNAP or “snacks.” (And looking at her, she might’ve been snapping up those snacks with SNAP.)
Oh, but don’t think all of this has meant an attitude adjustment. In fact, she says that Africa is so bad, she might as well have stayed in the “United Snakes of America.”
This is all in a video that, while some years old, has gone viral. And it dovetails perfectly with an article I wrote just yesterday on anti-Americanism — and the hatred breeding it.
Not Called the Third World for Nothin’
Now, I always shake my head at how my countrymen are so often oblivious to life beyond the U.S. (The relevant phenomenon is not, though, confined to Americans. A Pole living in the U.S. once told me his countrymen often think gold grows out of the streets here.) And this brings to mind my experiences decades ago as an aspiring athlete (tennis) traveling on a shoestring budget.
While playing in India, a fellow American competitor told me he was happy he’d arrived in the country early. Because his mind was so blown by the conditions that he was severely depressed for a day or two. Then there were the Europeans who returned home from North Africa before even completing the tournament. They found the realities intolerable…
Related Article: Woman who fled ‘white racism’ in America for Africa can’t wait to come back
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