"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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I can't think of his name right now, but there is a black
reporter for the Wall Street Journal who wrote a book about
how glad his ancestors were slaves in America, so he doesn't
have to live in Africa.

You are presumably thinking of Thomas Sowell, a columnist (not reporter) for
the Wall Street Journal who has argued against reparations.

But while Sowell does mention that (of course) he is better off in America
than in Africa, he certainly does *not* express gratitude about his
ancestors' captivity; on the contrary, he condemns that atrocity in the
strongest terms.

The idea that even the most conservative black scholar could be "glad" his
ancestors were enslaved is purely a product of your own twisted, racist,
slavery-rationalizing imagination.

--Gary