Mr. Winston,<br /> I am force to write in response to an allegation you have no idea about, and try to straighten up your mentality of hate. Ms. Manneh was granted asylum? are you sure? I don't think so. Why intruding into someone's private life, this is outrageous and unacceptable. People granted asylum status don't need your advise, if the need arise they can get it in a professional manner.<br />Slavery is worst than the holocaust, I agree. Does that warrant hatred towards innocent lives, I disagree. Hate will not help heal any heart, it will just worsen the burning irritation already triggered. Today, even if billions of dollars were pumped to each and every African country daily in compensation for slavery, it will not go to the right place as the system in Africa is terribly broken. Hatred will never lead to victory, the love for every human soul created is a fundamental obligation to all mankind, crying foul and vulnerability is not an excuse to hate. "In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness will do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love in the center of our lives" Martin Luther King Jr.<br />My dear brother, although slavery impacted us, but the commonly ignored billion dollar question is who were condoning slavery? it was a legal trade at the time. Shouldn't we blame our ancestors for selling slaves for their own selfish interest? We should not use what happened centuries ago as an excuse for our broken system , we should move on and not point fingers at anybody but ourselves. I am not saying we should not remember those innocent lives sacrifice in the slave trade, i am simply advocating for Africans to change attitude towards the past, the west pulling Africa so low does not warrant us to hate innocent lives. Mr. Winston, I think you need some counseling, because you need to spit that killer venom you comfortably harbor in your heart.<br />wasallam.