BK - one must show love and know love in order to grow love...your garden would be quite dull, filled with one color flower. It is not the bredren and sistren of this board rejecting you so much as you seem to be rejecting and shutting them out. What is the continental African message you wish to spread? Stay away? Every man has a right to the motherland, so long as they work in ways to honor and promote her sanctity. As an African, you of all should realize that she is the birthplace and root of all men. So in fighting down others on this board over skin color, you are merely neglecting to trace our common ancestry back to creation. ONE LOVE SPRINGS OUT OF ONE BLOOD. We are all brothers and sisters of one extended family, made distant and divided over history, but still one. Trace it back to Africa and see why we all share this common interest and as too many mistakenly label it "pro-blackness." It is "pro-Africa" in that we all share in the interest of keeping our shared foundation continent pure and an example for the rest of creation, as it was in the beginning and shall so be in the end.