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Black in America: Your roots
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Operation 'sponsor your roots': a way African-American celebrities can help Africa
Henry Louis Gates' PBS documentary "African American Lives" showed a way DNA technology can be used to identify the origin (in Africa) of black Americans. If the tests are perfected, blacks all over the Diaspora could find out their tribe/ethnic group. With that possibility in mind, I have an idea of how prominent African-Americans can help the motherland. Once they've done the test, they can decide to help their "newfound" community in any way they can. They could sponsor a hospital or school for example. They'd have to be on the ground though because, with the many corrupt governments on the continent, sending money won't be a good idea. There'd be problems of course. For one, Africans that came here intermixed and so African-Americans have several "points of origin" in Africa. Also, the slaves came only from the West and West-Central regions of Africa, and so the North, East, and Southern regions of the continent would be left out in such a plan. Is this a good idea though? I discuss the subject in this following article:
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