Sitting and waiting for 18 hours to begin in Washington DC (6:00pm) We stop over for an hour in Dakar, Senegal. The child behind me is playing out an epic scene with his dinosaur toys ("my guys", "my friends") and a volcano filled with "hot lama". Flipping through the in-flight magazine here on the ground, I was stricken with the lengths they've gone to make Africa look like Tallahassee. Black are not pictured unless they are entertainers (minstrels) or servers (slaves). You'd think Africa was just a bunch of white folks having a good ole' time. These black entertainers are kept around, of course, as representations of the "real culture", but the rest is given over to Shakespeare, piano recitals, ballet, jogging, oh and lions. There are lions in Africa..
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