Your response makes a lot of generalizations. For example, you state that “West Africans forfeit any standing to assert any identity or kinship with us.” You seem unaware that that identity and kinship was never completely severed by the slave trade. It still exists. The claim that you have done more Africa and the diapora without reciprocation is also a lie. Anything that African Americans can claim to have contributed to Africa or the Caribbean was done as a joint effort, in which African Americans were also supported. An example is in the 1960s when African Americans and Africans actively supported each other. I was born in the Caribbean and can give you an extensive history of the manner in which Caribbean people have contributed to the African American struggle.

Your response is precisely why I felt the need to write these articles. There’s so much history between the diaspora and the continent that individuals like you seem completely ignorant on. For example, how can you claim that “ Africans did not provide *any* inspiration, assistance or leadership” when Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Kwame Ture, and so many others were involved in the struggle at the time have said otherwise. You don’t even know your own history, much less the history of Africa and the Caribbean.