comparison n contrast

In comparison to Ture and Early, both of them talk about the color line amongst Africans ourselves. They both discussed the fact Africans, of all generations are segregated, amongst each other. The difference however, is posed when they talk about how and why these divisions exist; and frankly I agree with Ture's point of view. He believes that there is a long genealogy of these divisions set in place strategically by our European counterparts. He says that these divisions were a way to keep differences up between us so that we'd think so differently about each other and always have this sense of separation or better yet, removal. This is funny because Early's essay qualifies this notion, "never African again", is he serious! Essays and viewpoints like these are what keeps us Blacks from achieving a unity that will make us the noble kings and queens that we once were. No I'm not talking about literally sitting on thrones (in which we could) but I'm talking about reclaiming our dignity and sense of pride about who we really are. It;s real sad that most of our youth are taught that we were an uncivilized race and that our history as the world knows it started with slavery. On the contrary, we were the first human beings to establish civilization, and although there were different tribes at that time, everyone was the same, it was the Africans who came in and created country lines both symbolicly and physically so that we'd never get back to the force that we used to be--Africans period.