I'm tired of the lack of respect towards black Americans from Africa/black immigrants

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

If they're not Americanized they won't fukk with you. Just the way it is.

 

[Illuminatos]

I didn't avoid the question. You asked why I think your an Uncle Tom and I said its because you display Uncle Tom qualities.

You reading comprehension is what needs help.

 

[Blackout]

Nice job trying to run away from me calling out your Uncle Tom traits by using a gif.

 

[Lavish]

I'm African American of course and I wouldn't have it any other way.

:thinkin::thinkin:

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

I want to add though that the ones that come over when they're young, like six or seven, have a rough go of it because they're teased and bullied relentlessly. So that might be a contributing factor in their stance.

 

[NYC Rebel]

I want to add though that the ones that come over when they're young, like six or seven, have a rough go of it because they're teased and bullied relentlessly. So that might be a contributing factor in their stance.

I went through it jack....but I also gave it back.

But it's all good when cats get older.

 

[Illuminatos]

Nice job trying to run away from me calling out your Uncle Tom traits by using a gif.

You know what breh. You win. I'm an uncle tom.

 

[Montez]

Dog....most of them leave to come here and receive the best education this world has to offer.

My dad grew up in the palace in Ife and was educated in the best schools. He left to finish his education here, like so many others.

What the hell are you talking about? You dont think the "brain drain" in many of these nations isn't real?

I accounted for brain drain, did you miss that?

The kids who didnt go right into the family business went to school here or in the uk but when they were done they went back home. Elites, 8/9 times out of 10, weren't leaving unless politics got involved. The kids from the middle class were more likely to immigrate and carve out a life for themselves.

 

[Momentum]

It's more of a tradition than requirement lol.

But my homies uphold the tradition

 

[Prince Akeem]

My ex girls' husband runs some frat org down in B-More and last week, two Africans were talking sideways about Black Americans in B-More. Dude had to tell them "you're in an office full of frats and educated black americans you sit across everyday, and all you can look at is poor blacks in Baltimore as respresentatives of all of us? How hard would it be for me to go to your country and find the worst of your kind and do the same?"

Dudes fell back and said they didn't think of it that way.

 

[mbewane]

Here's the thing many African Americans need to understand. Class is a big deal back home...so the same way they look down on blacks here is the same way they look at lower class blacks back in their home countries.

Unfortunately this is true, more or less depening on the country but I think it's fact in most african countries.

Depends. That holds true with a lot of the earlier West Africans immigrants as they immigrated through meeting qualifications or as students but majority of East Africans came as refugees or applied for asylum. Also applies with a lot of the Francophone Africans.

It's not because you're a refugee that you're not "upper class" breh, once a war/rebellion starts those who were ruling one day have to run for their lives jut like others. Matter of fact they might have the right connections in embassies/overseas to facilitate obtaining that refugee status. Of course most refugees do come from "lower" classes (for lack of a better word), but don't assume that all refugees do.

 

[thatrapsfan]

It's not because you're a refugee that you're not "upper class" breh, once a war/rebellion starts those who were ruling one day have to run for their lives jut like others. Matter of fact they might have the right connections in embassies/overseas to facilitate obtaining that refugee status. Of course most refugees do come from "lower" classes (for lack of a better word), but don't assume that all refugees do.

I was just speaking of the communities Im most familiar with. I'm Somali and I know that majority of the Somali diaspora definitely wasn't upper class in any sense of that word back home. Same goes for most Ethiopians and Eritreans in the West. Of course there are exceptions but that's the case with the majority. It's why they're generally less well off than older West African immigrants in the States who either came to study or were already highly educated.

 

[Marvel]

Same here with my dad. He went to Central State U in Ohio and his first roommate moved out once he found out my pops was Nigerian.

But there was an openness for blacks here to want to know their past though.

Here's a big story from back in the 70's of some chick my pops met here who eventually traveled to Nigeria for two weeks to stay with my family.

Black World/Negro Digest - Google Books

There is actually a part in the book where the Nigerians were asked if they lived in trees

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

But my homies uphold the tradition

No doubt, my parents are big on tradition... U gotta walk the guest all the way out the house to the car and always offer them something to eat or drink.

 

[Yakno1]

My ex girls' husband runs some frat org down in B-More and last week, two Africans were talking sideways about Black Americans in B-More. Dude had to tell them "you're in an office full of frats and educated black americans you sit across everyday, and all you can look at is poor blacks in Baltimore as respresentatives of all of us? How hard would it be for me to go to your country and find the worst of your kind and do the same?"

Dudes fell back and said they didn't think of it that way.