"5 Lessons Traveling to Africa Taught Me About Being Black in America"

"Black America, we have so much to actually learn about Africa -- and yes, it does matter.

For far too long, our perceptions have been negatively impacted by white dominated narratives that have plagued our grade school text books and public discourse about the Motherland. The separation between our people across the diaspora is not just geographic, but philosophic. And while both sides can assess blame on boasting superiority against the other -- Black America's constant dismissal of the continent in our identity makes us the bigger culprit...
it re-teaches me that my legacy didn't start when my ancestors entered the West from slave ships (that's only the second half of my identity), but that there was an enriched culture before America -- and that was in Africa."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernest-owens/5-lessons-traveling-to-af_b_6065146.html