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| My finger paint of our route in the 2011 Cape to Cairo Classic Car trip |
They get ripped off, you see. They think they’re going to be treated as brothers. And sisters. Because they’re Black. But they’re treated like Americans. Because they’re American.
And so, get ripped off by the locals.
The map above is the Classic Car trip I did with a mate and 11 other classic cars, in 2011. I remember friendliness and smiling faces, right across Africa. And also “Something small for me, please Boss”. “Something little, little”. Or they’d ask us to give them our Mighty Mustang! Big laugh.
But we never felt threatened. Of course the locals, kids especially, are going to hassle us. We’re all whiteys. We’re Fair game.
Not so for the American Black folks. Who took up the invitation of places like Ghana and Nigeria. To come back “home”. To invest. Only to find that they too are hassled. Endlessly. And do feel threatened.
