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| While helping to bring a canoe ashore, a fisherman braces for a wave in Lake Volta. |
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” —Dr. Martin Luther King
By John W. Fountain
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| John Fountain stands in Assin Mansoslave river |
I return to my Homeland from the Motherland with this much clear: A modern day back-to-Africa movement is not the antidote to American racism and the pain and angst that ails the Black body and soul, even if Africa holds deeply rooted truths about the enslavement and deportation of Black bodies to a cruelly racist world beyond this continent that is the birthplace of civilization.
I return with truths about slavery and the hate we hold brother against brother, which creates the chasm upon which outsiders still seize and prey, in order to conquer, sift and separate us, and upon which we cannibalize and slay ourselves. Still.