Why do black African immigrants do better than American-born blacks?

Michie said:

Millions of sub-Saharan blacks seek to immigrate to America. They apparently haven’t gotten the memo that this is a wretched land of systemic anti-black racism.


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Why do black African immigrants do better than American-born blacks?

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I don't understand why some people feel the need to dehumanise others down to the level of a dissection in their supposed observation. Why make something racial when all that does is divide? How personally would they take it if their physical attributes, heritage or culture were the object of such cold and callous discussion?

Now human beings are being compared to chit'lins? Really? Can we not give each other more dignity than this?

And here we are, supposed to be the example of a unified body in Christ. Do we not know that EVERY tribe and tongue and people are represented in heaven? Or that we are all made in the image of God? Are we really ok with reducing that image to the basics of our extremely limited human understanding just to enable ourselves to be superior to other people?

The mind boggles.

Michie said:

Millions of sub-Saharan blacks seek to immigrate to America. They apparently haven’t gotten the memo that this is a wretched land of systemic anti-black racism.


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Systemic racism by definition has its effects on people who are part of that system, not outsiders. Contrary to what is often put about, CRT type ideas do not include the idea that racism is waiting in US airports waiting to pounce on non-whites. CRT is mainly about the legacy of racist ideas in the US through historical inequalities, as in quality of housing and various other social and political realities. You can see similar effects in other countries for different reasons, things like lower life expectancy and poorer mental and physical health typical among populations whose ancestors lacked access to the same opportunities as others.

Akita Suggagaki said:

Would you say that even about the later part if of his life after his trip to Mecca where he had a bit of a conversion about the possibilities of racial collaboration and apologized to MLK for earlier comments?

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Yes. He had not abandoned the idea that black Americans needed to abandon the dysfunctional "slave culture" that had been born of slavery and Jim Crow and adopt a functional culture based on Islamic tenets. He had certainly not become the assimilationist that MLK was,.

RDKirk said:

Yes. He had not abandoned the idea that black Americans needed to abandon the dysfunctional "slave culture" that had been born of slavery and Jim Crow and adopt a functional culture based on Islamic tenets. He had certainly not become the assimilationist that MLK was,.

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But that is not separatism. It seems to me he was all for the black community doing for themselves. That is for sure. But by then he also welcomed collaborations with other non blacks. But he was killed too soon to see the maturation of his thinking.

Akita Suggagaki said:

But that is not separatism. It seems to me he was all for the black community doing for themselves. That is for sure. But by then he also welcomed collaborations with other non blacks. But he was killed too soon to see the maturation of his thinking.

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He recognized that Muslim whites were not his enemy, but not that white Americans could be useful allies for what black Americans needed to do for themselves, which was essentially to reject the dysfunctional slave culture and adopt a new black American culture that would be beneficial and functional. He never believed whites had a role in that effort.

RDKirk said:

Yes. He had not abandoned the idea that black Americans needed to abandon the dysfunctional "slave culture" that had been born of slavery and Jim Crow and adopt a functional culture based on Islamic tenets. He had certainly not become the assimilationist that MLK was,.

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Saw a YouTube video the other day on Islam, more specifically SUNNI Islam and how anti-BLACK racism was and IS still a big part of many ME cultures. Discussed how even Mohammed emphasized his Whiteness and red headedness. Africans that go to work as maids, construction workers etc; this day are brutalized in the UAE. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon etc;. Blacks Muslim or not are being SOLD in slave auctions in Libya OR facing discrimination in countries in North Africa.

People ARE starting to wake up It is a shame it didn't happen for Malcolm X or Muhammad Ali.