Three decades later, not much has changed. Africans and black Americans often fail to forge relationships in the classroom and the workplace. They blame nationality, ethnicity, culture, economics and education. Yeshitela is from St. Petersburg and was formerly known as Joe Waller. NaHim Akbar, a psychology professor at Florida State University, sides with Glover.
Slavery is the tie that binds, but the legacy also keeps the two groups apart.
Some local blacks argue the closest they've ever come to Africa is Busch Gardens. The fact that African leaders profited from selling others is a betrayal many blacks refuse to forgive or forget. Glover agrees that while some Africans suffered under colonial rule and apartheid, not all can relate to the degradation of slavery. We do not understand the whole concept of slavery, or it's effect on the attitude of a lot of African-Americans, mainly because we were not exposed to it. Much bad blood stems from interactions between Africans and whites, Oigbokie says.