This was not their history. Anyone who has immigrant parents from a Caribbean or African country are very aware of the fact that while the mainstream may see them as “just black,” there is a big cultural difference between African Americans and black immigrants. Black immigrants had a choice in their pilgrimage to the states, and if they’ve made it to the U.S. and successfully built a life, they are most likely considered the crème de la crème of their country. Their hard work has always been rewarded in upward mobility, unlike African Americans who spent centuries enslaved, decades treated as separate and unequal, and today are still stunted with regard to economic growth.
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:14:18 +0000
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