Oh, Kunta!

This was in Sunday's Chicago Tribune:

Aid workers in the Horn of Africa were stunned recently when most of roughly 4,000 refugees in war-torn Eritrea who were offered resettlement to the United States declined. Why? Local rebels who depend on the tribesmen for recruits and war taxes had been showing old episodes of "Roots" to the refugees to convince them that slavery awaits them in America. Most of the refugees duped by the rebels won't get a second chance at entering the U.S.

- Inda