You'd agree that the average African immigrant doesn't really have an opinion of Black Americans and if they do have one it's mainly positive.
Im my own spokesperson. I have grown up around black immigrants. My parents are black immigrants. I’ve lived in Africa. I’ve been previewed conversations amongst many Africans. I also know what American media does in terms of feeding people images of black Americans outside of the country.
What is it that you’re not getting in these videos where even in the questions being asked there’s the assumptive angle that many immigrants carry wear black Americans aren’t doing this or that and have to be reminded or taught what they don’t know about black history? My wife’s who is black American close friend is Igbo and said she didn’t get shyt, thinking along the very lines that I speak on at many black immigrants carry, until she read the 1619 project. There was a Nigerian girl I used to rock with and first came to this country in 1992, who thought I was crazy when we met 15 years ago when I would bring up things that black folks!!experienced in this country. She gets her masters and learns about red lining and finally says I realize you weren’t crazy.
Yes… Many black immigrants carry negative thoughts on black Americans coming into the states. You can downplay that shyt to death… I simply am not one of those people Who will engage in it. At a tailgating event last fall when a attorney person was talking and tried to tell me black Americans don’t have culture thinking I would engage in that, how to fukk would I do that the rich history of my son’s mother’s Geehcie history? Dude said it’s so casually, and when I confronted him on it, he quickly change the subject. I grew up in Crown Heights Brooklyn… Around many Caribbeans…had a child by one. This is not unusual.
Saying this
does not come at the expense of pan Africanism
You'd also agree than the average African American could not tell you the capital of Burkina Faso either.
My dude...the average African outside of Burkina Faso can't tell you the capital of Burkina Faso. Africans are just as naive about other parts of Africa as are African Americans.
These are Nigerians asking "what west african country is this?"
These are some of the comments.
"Do they use pillows in that country?
"
"they live in huts!"
"Which kind thing be this?"
"Them bathe so?"
Africans are just as lost on what's going on in Africa as African Americans but no one questions them for that.
The elites of #bothsides care mainly about maintaining and growing their position so at a dinner party of Nigerian surgeons and of Boule Surgeons both would be talking down on working class Black people.
Do not compare the African elite to the Black elite in this country. There is an abject uncaring the Black elite in Africa carry for the people that pales in comparison to what I've seen here.
Did you NOT listen to what Kwame Toure said here?
"The African bourgeoisie is the most corrupt bourgeoisie than any other continent in the world. In Africa, they seek misery in the midst of mass suffering" - Kwame Toure...pan africanist.
I'm co-signing one of the
biggest Pan Africanist who
doesn't agree with you. You know more than Kwame? The Black elite in America are in no way as disconnected to the impoverished Black majority as the Black African elite are to their own. It ain't even close bro.