Dual Citizenship

[brianold]

Re: Dual Citizenship for Black Americans In Africa
Posted by: "Kenneth King" nnamdi79@yahoo.com nnamdi79
Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:57 am (PST)

I can't imagine that the question of dual citizenship or repatriation, will ever be at the burning issue for the majority of African Americans.

But, the fact the only some Diasporans will avail themselves of that option and others not, surely should not keep those seeking dual citizenship from
proceeding, with or without, the permission of their fellow Diasporans.

(It goes without saying that African Americans retain our right to freely move about the planet and that is true whether any fellow Diasporan approves or disapprove.

If our fellow Diasporans perceive the exercise of our Human Rights as a free people as "arrogance", so be it. The problem is their's not ours.)

I don't remember reading one thing in that petition that limited its goal of dual citizenship to African Americans. But if criticism is being cast for the
reason that the petition is overreaching, that is, is presumes to speak for the entire African diaspora, I would ask that the naysayers consider that a petition only speaks for its signatories.

Finally, that others have taken a different path to achieve the same goal, is also no bar to the circulation of this petition, as no means has as yet
proven itself superior to any of the others.

Umasia......

Race: Black
Ancestry: African
Nation of Birth: U.S.A.
Citizenship: U.S.A. (and hoping for another)
Ethnicity: African American (till the day I die!)