An unknown historical account of racial prejudice in Africa from a Black American living there in 1957, a Homer Smith: We have a testimony from Homer Smith , an african-american, who was resident of addis ababa in 1957: In his private letter to Claude A. Barnett of the associated Negro Press of Chicago, Mr. Smith bitterly complained that the abissinians desdain black americans. As an example of how the ethiopian elite scorned African Americans, Smith cited his futile efforts to solicit their assistance in erecting a fitting monument for the deceased Negro war hero John Robinson. According to Smith, none of the aristocracy, including the Duke of Harar, who Colonel Robinson had taught to fly, had responded with one cent to his solicitations. Moneyed ethiopians, he charged, had, on the other hand, placed a fine stone over the grave of a russian nurse whose sole contribution had been providing sick care for some Ethiopian dignitaries while Robinson´s nearby burial place, marked by a rotten wooden cross, was in disrepair. " Don´t let anybody tell you or anybody else that Ethiopians do not worship white people. They do look down on the American Negro despite the fact colored Americans are incomparably centuries ahead of them in education, wealth, culture etc. ( W.R. Scott, The sons of Sheba´s race, 1993, p. ethiopianreview/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=46304
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:27:29 +0000
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