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Why do I as a black American continue to love and defend a country that treats me like an unwanted child? Jason Robinson


Answer

Sydney Possuelo: Jason. Oh my boy. You will continue to love the United States. It is your country. They are your people. And your people is not only people of your colour. It is stupid to distinguish people by their colour. But I understand this [opression]. I understand []. We should not dislike our country, you should not dislike your country. The human being is very complexe, Jason. There is such a big mixture of feelings in you, as black and Northamerican being expulsed by your proper society to which you belong to. Those are things we have to change. This is not a problem inside yourself which goes outside, but it’s a problem from the outside going into yourself. It is a problem which the Northamerican society brings to you and with which we and you have to [] with. Why do we love a country that treats us so badly? We are so needy, we are so affectionate with our [], we love our countryside, our villages, our cities, our beauties, our uglinesses, our miseries, all this is mixed up in us in such a way that sometimes this conscience, the conscience of knowing that it is a negative aspect this type of social rejection that should not promote more bad things that it is already provoking. I don’t know, it is very difficult.