I was determined to find it and I did find it. I went back to the library and got the book and starting looking for the statement I had mentioned. I was starting to question it myself; I know how odd my memory can be. I started at the beginning of the book and it wasn’t there as I expected it to be, then I found it; it wasn’t at the beginning it was at the end. But the comment was very close to what I remembered. It is on page 285 the fourth and fifth paragraphs. It begins with those African captured and enslaved had been the unlucky ones …………Sue U wrote:I haven't read the book either, and I highly doubt that liberty has, but from what I could glean from the Amazon blurb, the author is a Ghanaian who immigrated to the U.S. in her 20s, became an American citizen in her 40s, and in her 50s moved back to her family's impoverished village in Ghana. I didn't see anything about slaves or their descendants being "lucky," and evidently neither she nor her ancestors were slaves (at least not in America).
Moreover, people "who’s [sic] ancestors were taken to Americas as slaves" are not "Africans," lucky or otherwise; they are Americans just like everyone else born here.
I'm confused by the whole OP. I mean, aside from the obvious expression of liberty's racism.
At the beginning of the fifth paragraph it reads: But by the second half of the twentieth century that was reversing……… And the last sentence reads: The descendants of the unlucky ones had become very lucky indeed.
So now you agree King Peggy is indeed a racist, an uncle tom and a race trader.