Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

I think Chidi is too smart to have meant that literally. If he did, then he would have been one of those renegade children who point to their parents' homes with the wrong finger. We are all offsprings of those individuals referenced here and they are the red tags upon which the price of our own freedom is indelibly written. I believe for Chidi, it's poetic license taken over the board, that is if he meant it literally and personally I apologize for the literary hiccups!

Michael O. Afolayan 

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On Jun 28, 2018, at 11:09 PM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:

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This is a disgusting statement Chidi. I just came across it.

 You have actually insulted generations of enslaved Africans by this insane perspective.

I am hoping that you don't mean it literally.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali

Professor of History
History Department

Central Connecticut State University

1615 Stanley Street
 New Britain. CT 06050
 

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 5:23 PM
To: USA African Dialogue Series
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

 

It was not poverty or greed or wickedness that made our forebear to sell people as slaves, it was a way to get rid of the "efulefus" (worthless persons).

CAO.

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