Uganda, Sept. 28 -- Political systems evolve. They take time to mature. The United States of America got independence in 1776. They have been working on their democracy since. African-Americans were granted freedom to vote in the country's elections in 1965.

It took 189 years for Americans of African descent to exercise the basic right to vote and choose their leaders. The first African-American child to desegregate an all-white school in New Orleans is only 68 years today. Her feat happened in 1960. It took the USA democracy 184 years to mature to the level of accepting that a black child was equal to a white child, for schooling purposes.

Interracial marriage in the United States of America has been fully legal only since 1967. It too...