I grew up in Africa, Ghana and Liberia to be exact. My image of the Blacks, was formed by what I would later come to understand that a form of indentured servants still exist in parts of the world. My grandfather as an architect lucked out on a contracted job to build a village in Ghana for high statures. As part of the contract, we had servants to serve our every need. The blacks were of course portrayed as earnest, intelligent men but were denied a job that would commensurate with their abilities solely because of their skin color; whereas the whites or other colors in our case was stereotyped of higher stature. When I was 9 years old, I came to America. I still had African clothes because it was normal other than blacks to also wear oversized clothes with light colors. As I later found out, that was not the case in America. In the eyes of my classmates, predominantly living and going to school in a black neighborhood, I looked ridiculous. I was also shocked to be insulted by my classmates as not deserving to wear clothing in their heritage. It kind of scared me because I was so accustomed to polite people in Africa and now I had to be careful as to what I can say or do. I've come to understand that I was all for civil rights movement or now what seems to be a civil revenge movement.
             From middle school to high school, I really got to know why some African Americans were so vile and mean towards whites. I guess you have to understand it from there point of view. It wasn't going to stop with what I understood by civil rights; in fact it lost sense of limits. I understood justice for African Americans to be part of the rational order for white capitulation. In order to understand why African Americans have
             such hatred towards whites and why it seems that revenge can be blamed for acts of violence, we have to start before civil rights. In the late 1800's, the word Jim
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