>said in an 1895 speech in Alanta that despite the civil rights challenges faced by African Americans, that America was the best place in the world for Africans to live and prosper.

Maybe because Americans, whether black like Booker T Washington or white like Donald J. Trump, are notoriously ignorant on living conditions elsewhere, and conditioned to believe their country is the greatest ever place to live, even if it's way behind dozens of life metrics most of the western world.

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fsckboy an hour ago | parent [-]

or maybe because Africa was under brutal European colonization at the time, look up Belgium

	▲	coldtea an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Don't have to look up Belgium, I know of it (and Belgium was in the Congo and Ruanda basically, not Africa in general). Doesn't mean the US, with KKK, Jim Crow, seggregation, and the rest was the best country in the world for blacks to live.