During the Dum Dum Intellectuals meeting, the narrator takes issue with McJones when he says, “you can’t even pretend to tell me you would rather live in Africa than anywhere else in America” (219). The narrator considers this, concluding that perhaps the “relative happiness, including, but not limited to, twenty-four-hour access to chili burgers, Blu-ray, and Aaron office chairs”, is not worth the “generations of suffering” that the institution of slavery inflicted on Black people. A trend in society that this book attempts to expose is the tendency to rid America’s history of evil and suffering, and constantly do things small and large in order to save face. McJones’s argument suggests that slavery and its consequences actually can be twisted to be viewed in a positive light, because it brought black people to America and now they are here and can pursue the American dream alongside everyone else. The narrator’s response reduces the perks of American life to chili dogs and nice office chairs, and forces you to wonder if having the privileges of being American rectifies anything for the Black community. If we had the chance to go back in time and undo the horrors of slavery, the narrator points out that living in Africa instead of America might not be a deterrent.