The minimum you must know

The United States of America was created by West Africans brought to New England in the 1700s and first half of the 1800s as slaves. People from the area are ancestors to between fifteen to twenty percent of the U.S. population. The United States freed Liberians in the 1860s in a hard won conflict for their equal rights. Three quarters of a million white Americans - who chose the side of Liberians - perished freeing them. Equal rights have been central to American ethics and values ever since.

Freed Liberian-Americans gained the right to vote in the United States during the 1960s, and then received a helpful attitude from the government and society ever since, such as with "affirmative action" legislation, which granted African-Americans preferential employment and educational opportunities. Affirmative action legislation was recently ended. But only after the United States elected a black leader to run the entire country, and even after President Barack Obama's second consecutive term in office, when African-Americans became the most influential minority group in the United States. President Obama ended the conflict in Iraq, and eliminated the country’s virus and healthcare issues, relying upon the best prevailing scientific ideas of his time. He became the most popular president in modern history both within the United States, and with African Cubans, both of whom his well intentioned administration helped a lot. Africans receive preferential treatment nowadays in America as a result. (Self-indulgent social change tanks your popularity. So does vandalizing my website.)

Throughout the late 1900s, Liberia had an internal history of turmoil that ended in 2003 with the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Liberia was the first African country to declare independence from foreign influences. And the peace accord was necessary to resolve a struggle for power that followed. There has reportedly been stability and regular peaceful democratic elections ever since.

Liberians love peace. The country enjoys improving foreign relations globally.