Wasn't it depressing Stu, as you say? I felt so sorry for the children. What a life. I compared it to our village children enjoying the summer in freedom and safety and felt very sad.

I have never visited the USA, and I fondly imagined that the southern states had changed over the years regarding racism. On the contrary, it appears that there is a situation of almost war between the whites and the blacks. Just as in South Africa, whereas at one time the blacks were subjugated and treated abominably (ie apartheid) they have now rebelled and become highly dangerous, fuelled by the fear, attacks and aggression of many of the white population. There are quite a few parallels between the two countries actually.

The ignorance was astonishing. A white racist American actually declared on camera that the black people were inferior genetically and should have stayed in the jungle sitting under a tree, and wished they'd 'go home'. (I imagine he'd forgotten that their ancestors had been forcibly abducted in Africa and brought unwillingly to America to become slaves.) If he'd said that on camera in UK he'd have been arrested.

I can't see a way out of all this.