Most African American folks think they are better than Caribbean and Africans so there is no working together
In other words, slavery and colonialism fucked us all up but we'd rather discredit each other than work together.
Finger, i'm going to break it down too.....
1. A lot of African Americans have Caribbean and African roots.
Those that do understand the big picture.
Similarly Caribbean and African people who have relatives in the US understand the big picture.
2. Immigrants to any country are generally harder workers than the resident population.
An immigrant to Jamaica from St Lucia would generally work harder than the resident Jamaican.
If you leave your home country, it is not easy to leave behind family and friends.
That mentality translates into focus.
Same shit with eastern europeans who come to america.
An immigrant mentality is like this: I came from another country, I have no support system but I am going to do whatever to make it.
An immigrant understands that everything in life is dependent on what he does cause there is no support system.
I visited Ellis Island and saw this same tension when Polish, Irish, italian etc were coming to this country to work on the railroads.
So it is not necessarily a race or culture thing.
It's an immigrant coming to compete for resources thing.
3. White Americans are slick.
In my experience, they have tried talking shit about African Americans and I have had to check them.
They assume that black immigrants don't know their history of oppressing African Americans and they try to get into your head before you understand their history.
I will give an example that I give some years back.
A white Sr VP told me that he hates when AA talk in ebonics, they should speak proper english.
I told him that americans speak american english and then I asked him if he has problems with Indians, Chinese and other immigrants who don't speak proper english.
He told me that it is ok for them but not for AA because AAs have lived here all their lives and they should know how to speak proper english.
I then told him I have a problem with americans who think they speak proper english such as valley girls etc..
So he eventually threw in the towel.
But not everyone is like me. Not every one is willing to put their neck out.
But it is important for African Americans to understand that there exist to an extent a courting process to fill immigrants head with bullshit so that they could excuse their guilt.
4. Immigrants come from predominantly 2 classes.
Educated class (both rich & poor) and poorer class
The educated class come to go to universities, may stay on completion and go on to professional jobs.
The poorer class come to work and save money for family members back home. Typically work consists of baby sitting, care takers etc.
Typical areas are hoods in New York, Miami, Philly, DC and any other areas with good public transport systems.
They typically assimilate into speech patterns, attitude and behaviors of those environments just to survive.
These environments are the harsher ones and often immigrants are ridiculed in them.
This does not take place (I haven't seen it, may exists) at the professional level. All groups, African Americans, Caribbean, Africans at this level know the game.
So that is my take in a nut shell.
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