Originally Posted by cmac2012

I think they were correct in noting that assimilation and peaceful coexistence would be difficult. Whether or not they were correct that some sort of resettlement could work is another matter. The Liberia experiment had many problems - Americanized blacks were generally of a different caste than natives.

Hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. White Europeans created the conundrum by bringing Africans to these shores and over generations making them into different people than those back on the continent - certainly different in language and skill sets.

Could be the only atonement possible is the one that has gone on up til this moment: an often awkward and painful process of learning something that has arguably not been successfully done before, which is of course, a working multi racial society with something approximating equality for the various players.

There are ongoing problems of course but there are also many area of enrichment, cultural growth etc.