A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a conversation on #BlackTwitter about why the continent of Africa isn’t on more black Americans’ vacation wish list. Since I’ve spent most of my year in Zambia, the conversation piqued my interest.
I was floored and saddened by the ignorant and downright asinine comments made by people attempting (and failing) to be Twitter funny. I’m not going to call out individual people, but I screenshot some responses just so I could respond to exactly what was said. Here are a few of my favorite (read: the dumbest) tweets: