African American Vs Africans, New Immigrants

Are we African American's negative to Africans who immigrate here?

Why are these new African immigrants doing so well, when they just got here.

Do new immigrants who come here take the black legacy for freedom for granted?

DO they look down on black americans as poor dumb uneducated people?

Are we racist to them?

All Good questions.

1. Yes we are in some cases. Combination of that crab in a barrel mentality, ignorant attitudes, and some jealousy. Probably comes from an inherent feeling that they are looking at what they loss. That is some of it. Many will no doubt discount this as they have embraced and more so been effective at assimilating within the majority culture and rejecting any other details of diversity and history on a racial level.

2. They know and understand the system and are also not hamstrung by many of the inherent sociological and psycholoigcal barriers that blacks(african americans) contend with. 3. I don't know. They have many legacies of their own that tie and don't tie in with ours. They have had to deal with things we have not and vice versa. You must look at the context in which they came here and what the situation was at home. Kepp in mind however that the whole continent was colonized and the reprecussions of that must be accounted for.

4. From the ones I talked to, some yes and some no. Many look at blacks with pity, at potential lost, and untapped.

5. Some I'm sure do. But that would be as just a gross misconception as us looking down on them.

See point #1.6. Depends on the definition of racism. Using the current one, the answer probably varies. Looking forward to other opinions, this is a most unfortunate situatuion we find ourselves in as members of the African Diaspora.


The key here is culture. Black people have a vast array of different cultures.Many black immigrants have it ingrained in them through culture, that they are simply going to succeed no matter the obstacles . Sadly many black Americans have it ingrained in them that learning is a "white thing" that speaking standard english is "acting white" and codemning criminal behavior in some cases is viewed as being a "traitor" or the myth of "self-hate".