Another one to celebrate: they call themselves 'Afro-pessimists'. And their fallacious 'philosophy' teaches that the black man can never achieve anything worthwhile. Well, Barack Obama in the US, and Lewis Hamilton in the UK--after winning the Formula One championship at only his second attempt--have proved them all wrong! Cameron Duodu reports.

New African › Nbr. 2008, April 2008

Author: Duodu, Cameron

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Another one to celebrate: they call themselves 'Afro-pessimists'. And their fallacious 'philosophy' teaches that the black man can never achieve anything worthwhile. Well, Barack Obama in the US, and Lewis Hamilton in the UK--after winning the Formula One championship at only his second attempt--have proved them all wrong! Cameron Duodu reports.

Some Afro-pessimists even believe that the colour black is "cursed"! If you dispute it, they trot out a whole list of cliches to try and convince you that this nonsense is the gospel truth. "What colour was Idi Amin, who killed so many people in Uganda?", they ask. But they won't listen if you tell them that Amin was created by the British! And Hitler was not black.

Will an "Afro-pessimist" shut up if you give him such facts? Not in the least. One of them even went as far as to ask me: "Have you ever seen a black star in the sky?"

Well, I told him: "You can't see a black star in th...

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