So because black immigrants don't subscribe to your narrow point of view, it's fukk us all?
Whatever. Tariq has literally spent the past 6 months disparaging black immigrants and speaking very derisively in generalities. It's disgusting. The level of anti-african rhetoric from is followers is even more apalling. Nothing but the same anti-african animosity many black Americans did to Africans back in grade school. I know most black ADOS will claim "teasing" and encourage us to get over it but it doesn't work that way. Abuse is abuse, and has severe psychological ramifications.
As an adult I don't have much anger about it anymore as I've understood that in a system of white supremacy, anti anfrican rhetoric is the norm, so Tariq like I are only victims. However Tariq has a platform and instead of helping unite black people with positive thinking he decides to spew anti-immigrant nativist garbage designed to file up already biased and prejudiced followers. He's clearly using the Trump strategy but the black version. If black Americans go down this road, they'll soon find themselves unwelcome in Africa similarly to how white Americans are viewed abroad.
Jesus.
What do you think would happen to black immigrants if Foundational Black Amercan's weren't here? The degree to which a black immigrant is even here much less can assert any political "point of view" is predicated on black americans creating the political and social capital for to that happen. Your political fate is tied with ours, not with the millions of non-black immigrants who out number you, who are not here for you. Immigration being weaponized against us for the last 200 years should be your concern, thinking you exist as a separate "black immigrant" class is false consciousness, no different the boule negroes or buffer class black Americans who are a problem to rest of black America.
This is why Tariq's rhetoric hits y'all differently for some reason, because y'all are holding on to a political identity that's in-congruent with racial politics in this country. Is a lot of it what he says problematic and should be called out? Sure (the aids comments for instance) but many of the criticisms of non-ados are constructive and spot on. The fact that many of you guys are so upset by critiques against individual or segments of y'all culture and compare it to what WHITES do is absurd, especially considering Tariq has been disparaging segments of black American society in the same way, for years. We don't hate Africans or other black people collectively in the black American culture, now or ever. However, we do have a culture of regulating each other. It's imperfect for sure, but that's what this is, it's not some form or version of white hatred SMH
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I'm not going to get into the anti-African animosity from school children either, because that was never rooted in any understanding or conception of the continent that was passed down from black adults . Most of that nonsense came from watching things Tarzan and was tied to a negative sense of self, not a view of the outsider (xenophobia) Moreover, black american educators and scholars tried to combat that ignorance with things like Kwanzaa and Roots. We try to regulate in our culture, even though we often fail at it.