This is wildly presumptive and highly disingenuous.
We dont deny our roots, black immigrants do.
With family who have lineage tied to South Carolina, New York and Connecticut, all ADOS by definition, they do not acknowledge their African roots and are destined to die with the notion that,
"we are not African. We have no connection to Africa." More than just an isolated incident, I've seen this sentiment amongst many American black people time and time again, most notably when they come across an African person. The words,
"oh you African African..." ring loudly. Ask most Black people in America and they wanna be something other than what they are.
"Oh you know, I'm light skinned cause I got Cherokee, Navajo, & Red Indian in me."
Ok.
Conversely, make your way down to Trinidad and head to the southern part of the nation and watch how it's done. Towns such as
"Little Brazil" are proud of their African roots and celebrate it throughout. Afro-Colombians represent their blackness though African song and dance. And Salvador de Bahia in Brazil speaks for itself. That is colloquially known as African on the Western Hemisphere.
So for you to say that immigrants deny their roots before Black Americans is a false statement and inaccurate.
Black immigrants dont acknowledge our ancestors here in the US or our nationality. Black Americans literally called ourselves African Americans, now you claim we reject Africa?
Yvette Carnell has herself championed that the label
"African American" be switched to
"ADOS", once again denouncing any connection to Africa. And educated Black immigrants do not NOT acknowledge our ancestors. On the contrary, they study them harder than we do.
Don't believe that? Go look at University numbers across this nation.
We dont put down Africans...
Yes we do.
"African Body Scratcher" is a US invention. What, you think it was created in Ghana or Senegal? The disdain has always been there whether you acknowledge the facts or not.
From the moment African children enter school, they are ridiculed for being from Africa. Now this case goes both ways where Africans DO have words of their own for Black Americans, but jump off the moral high horse your on and acknowledge the facts. This instance is a two way street.
You guys focus on us so much to deflect from the fact the white Brits be kicking yo ass, deporting you, and still exploiting your home countries. John Boyega is your biggest revolutionary right now. Yall would rather diss black Americans than lay a finger on a cac then try to act like yall are more militant than us.
