African Migrants Say the Quiet Part Out Loud—Black Americans Respond With a Powerful History Lesson.

[00:00:00]I was raised to not like and to not trust and to not value African-Americans, wanting nothing to do with them because I was I was fearful for my own life when it came to them.

[00:00:10]>> Like everybody hates us because they all want to be us.

[00:00:13]>> We supposed to be gang. We supposed to be closed, but we just not. And listen, I'm not coming from no group. I'm not coming for Africans. I'm not coming for black Americans. I ain't coming for nobody. I just want to understand where is this disconnect coming from? Why do we hate each other so much? Why?

[00:00:28]>> For my African cousins, you do not look black American.

[00:00:34]This is black American.

[00:00:37]Y'all look African. I mean, like, it's like y'all going to have the cheekbones.

[00:00:41]Y'all going to have a certain head structure. Y'all are going to have a certain energy about y'all. Black Americans, we look really pretty in a way that >> [laughter] [screaming] >> Hey, what?

[00:01:06][laughter] I literally saw this boy the other day in my neighborhood here and I'm in Africa. Something that looks exactly like your ass.

[00:01:23]Why? Why all the divide?

[00:01:26]>> They even convince the Africans to not like black Americans when they come over here. So I asked them, I'm like, "What's with the attitude?" Because I noticed the energy was very, very rude. Even when I tried to speak to them, try to hold conversation, they were very rude, seemingly because I was American. So I'm like, "What is the problem?" And they basically told me that it's because black Americans don't like Africans. And I'm like, "Black Americans are the most hated in America. We don't hate nobody.

[00:01:52]like everybody hates us because they all want to be us. So that's when I realized after talking to them that they had been coached. They had been coached before coming over here to basically watch these different movies and these different um films showing like the ne negative aspects of black people. So they would have this perception of us when they come over here, not just Africans, but other races as well that come, you know, immigrants that came to the country. So they were looking at us like we were, you know, criminals and we were like danger, but it was all manipulation. When I tell you, wow, the enemy, the enemy really put in a lot of work to try to make people go against each other. The devil.

[00:02:36]>> Peace and love to everyone watching this video. We start our video with that young African lady talking about how she was told to avoid black Americans after arriving in the USA. And probably you were surprised by those words coming from that young black lady. But for me, it did not surprise me because I've heard many similar stories of black immigrants talking about how their parents told them to avoid black Americans. And that was because of the negative stereotypes that these black parents had about black Americans. And this tend to make these African immigrants look down on black Americans, disrespect black Americans. And this also pushed many black Americans to start deniating themselves from these black immigrants. And this division is not something that should be given a table in these two communities. I really want us to watch these clips, understand what these people are saying and learn from their stories. The video is for education and awareness purpose. I will come back at the end with my deep analysis. If you find it interesting, support us by clicking on the like button. Let's get into it.

[00:03:47]>> And a beef that never made any sense to me. Black Americans versus Africans.

[00:03:52]What the [ __ ] are we doing? Are we not both [ __ ] Y'all, the world hates us equally. No one's going to stop you and be like, "Oh, where are you from?" and then treat you differently from a black person that comes from a different place. The world views us all the same.

[00:04:05]So, what the [ __ ] Where is the disconnect coming from? Someone explain that. Like, and it's just a whole bunch of [ __ ] A lot of [ __ ] started back when we were younger. Like, a lot of the experiences that African kids had growing up, the racist experiences that they had growing up, mostly came from black Americans, calling African kids African booty scratchers. I don't know if that was in retaliation, you feel me?

[00:04:26]Because me personally, I I never in my life have I ever had to deal with racism from any group, but from stories that I've heard online and from things that I've seen from people around me, that's just what it is. And I've just never understood that. Like, and then y'all, I just seen a video, right? This dude on Instagram was basically talking about like the same thing that I'm talking about right now. And then black Americans just got up on the uh in the comment section pointing the finger and saying, "But Africans did this, African did that." Bro, I'm not trying to justify the things that Africans have done and said, because Africans do be saying [ __ ] up things, but it's both groups. It's constant back and forth.

[00:05:03]We're not going to point the finger at just one group. It's constant back and forth. And then when this whole entire situation came about boycotting Asian businesses, right, and how black people were just going to support each other, black Americans meant just black American businesses. They're not talking about the Africans. They're not talking about any the even the Caribbeans. They was just talking. And I'm just like, bro, why are we so divided? Like, dang.

[00:05:26]Like, we can't like Well, like what's going on? I'm just confused, y'all. I'm just confused. So you think so you think ninjas is melanating like black people is out here running around and they not African? You think that they indigenous and [ __ ] like that?

[00:05:40]>> Some of them. Yeah. Majority of them.

[00:05:43]>> Until until you could prove me when black people weren't in America. Give me a year.

[00:05:47]>> So you So you believe in crazy culture.

[00:05:49]>> Give Give me a year when black people weren't in America. Give me a time frame.

[00:05:53]>> I can give you a time frame when they were.

[00:05:56]>> Give me a time frame when they wasn't. I mean, show me a time frame before 1526.

[00:06:01]>> At 1513, um, Vasco New Balboa, Balboa is the most frequently cited when he reached the Darren of Panama. He reported found a village of of black men. Quoted black men. This is his quote. Balboa found some negro slaves of the Lord of that place. They were negroes and they were the first that have been seen in the Indies. This is 1513. So that just debunkked that 1526 [ __ ] Do 1502 Columbus did not claim to see Africans himself. But the he recorded testimonies from the Native Americans who encountered blackskinned people had come from the south and southeast in boats trading in gold tips and metal spears. That's 150 1502. Now we're going to move on to 1511. Uh Peter the Spaniard found Negroes in the province who were only two days distanced from Quer Quay and they were fierce and cruel. It was thought that the former time negroes pass passing over in the seas for spoils have been shipwrecked and the savages had retained them. Cuz I said I said 1526 in America. What I'm talking about, I'm not talking about the Americas cuz they was brought here 1526. And where did they come from? Hispanoia. Now, you missed the time frame. The first ones that would be recorded in Hispanoia would have been would have been 1501.

[00:07:25]So, you got to go back a little further to that point. Then they found stone heads in Mexico that dates predates all of that. Uh, and they said this was the first civilization in America. And the Mexican archaeologist who found that stone head said that it was negroy type.

[00:07:41]So that beats all >> because they assumed it to be. Don't mean it was.

[00:07:45]>> Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. So that go that's another statement that beats your statement.

[00:07:49]>> I'm from St. Angelo, Texas. It's also considered as a Indian reservation.

[00:07:54]My grandma, one thing with my grandma on my mom's side, last name is Washington.

[00:07:58]You know, she said, "I remember Jesse when Jesse Jackson had announced that, oh, we from Africa, all that stuff. My grandma was pissed. My grandma and you see how the flyer My grandma was pissed."

[00:08:11]>> Well, she was pissed when people would say you're from Africa. When he said that, cuz he went public, he was the one that pushed that agenda.

[00:08:18]>> Who is he?

[00:08:18]>> Jesse Jackson.

[00:08:19]>> Okay. Um, but I remember sitting on my grandma, my great-grandmother's porch with my grandma and my cousin Renoya.

[00:08:26]And she was like, "Don't you ever say that you Africanamean."

[00:08:30]>> And why is that?

[00:08:31]>> She's like, and she's like, "Don't you ever say you African-American. Just remember that you some type of Indian."

[00:08:37]And so at this time, I'm in fifth grade.

[00:08:40]I'm at Glennmore. So I'm going back to the I'm going back to school. I went straight back to school that next day and question my history teacher. you know, these Indians are Spanish looking color, but that's what you say, but in the book that you're giving me, they're my color, so make it make sense. So, when I went to school, I looked in the back of the index. My mom, my grandma told me we were Blackfoot. Blackfoot is a uh tri a mixture tribe of Cherokee and Apache Indians. um whenever they captured them, they put them together and they had crossbreed, you know, some of them crossbreeded with one another. So they created the nation called Blackfoot. How come when it come to my people, y'all act like y'all can't give us our credit?

[00:09:28]And y'all know exactly what the heck I'm talking about. I'm on Twitter. People on here talk about some, oh, black Americans didn't create hip hop. It was Jamaicans. It was the Puerto Ricans. It was Everybody Everybody contributes to hip hop. IT WASN'T BLACK. WHY WOULD IT COME TO US? Y'ALL DON'T WANT TO GIVE US OUR PROPS. WE GIVE Y'ALL Y'ALL PROPS.

[00:09:46]WHY WOULD IT COME TO US? IT'S just all of a sudden like, bro, we just stupid.

[00:09:49]We dumb. We didn't contribute nothing to society. I don't care what y'all say, baby. We have done so much.

[00:09:57]You're not about to sit up here and act like we ain't do nothing.

[00:10:00]I don't care what the media tell y'all.

[00:10:02]If y'all would talk to us, we will tell you what what we did. And I don't need no diaspora words in my comments. I'm not playing with y'all. Like I stop playing on our top. Everybody else created something and we ain't contribute nothing.

[00:10:15]>> We have been in denial for a very long time. Those of us who are of Caribbean heritage or other parts of the black diaspora. Um I feel like we've just been lying to ourselves about black Americans. Some know, some are afraid to say it, but the raw truth is that black American culture is the most dominant black culture or any culture really in the world. It is the most influential, the most impactful, the most dynamic and diverse. If you even look at the United States, from New Orleans to New York to Florida to Memphis to Philly, Atlanta, Miami, it is the richest black culture in the world and the most influential. So, anyone who's ever said that black Americans don't have culture, you are a liar. That doesn't mean that Jamaicans, Nigerians are not also influential, because obviously we're incredibly influential as well. What we're seeing right now in real time is the contract, the Destiny work contract that they signed to essentially steal, co-op and pillage [music] this world for its resources, its culture, its its spiritual elevation.

[00:11:30]The contract is running out. That's why they acting up. I don't know how long that contract was to be for. [music] The Hebrew Israelites talking about is 400 years. I think honestly that contract was only going to last as long as black people were going to be asleep. If you haven't noticed, there has been an overwhelming exodus [music] out of the church. Okay, this isn't to say that some of y'all not going to church, okay? But there's an overwhelming exodus of black people leaving the [music] church, as well as there is an overwhelming amount of white folks who are starting to understand the truth of what's going on. [music] Stolen legacy academically explains it best.

[00:12:10]That destiny swap that they did with us, it was [music] to obtain the knowledge that it took Africans thousands [music] of years to evolve to.

[00:12:22]There are just certain things spiritually that [music] they just could not understand and they were a and here's the thing just like right now when when [music] are afraid when they don't understand something rather than sit the [ __ ] down and and calm down [music] they get violent. And that's exactly what they did when they were kicked out of Egypt multiple times before y'all [music] famous little Plato and and and and Socrates [ __ ] came into Africa. Y'all was kicked out because you were spiritually [music] immature.

[00:12:56]You were spiritually immature. Mind you, the issue that the Africans had with y'all back then was not because of race.

[00:13:05]It was because you were so [music] spiritually immature. If you didn't understand something, you immediately resort to violent. And here you are today, [music] a thousand plus years later. You don't understand something and you resort to violence. The destiny swap that you've done on black folk has run its course. Okay. Black people in this country resting. [music] That right there, we are taking our own [ __ ] back. [music] We're taking our own spirituality back.

[00:13:36]Us resting is us intentionally breaking the generational curses. We are not waiting for no savior to come and save us.

[00:13:45]>> [music] >> That is what y'all try to lie to us to keep us in this cycle, to keep us confeding your the destiny swap that you sign off on us.

[00:13:58]And now black people are no longer going to participate in the [ __ ] that y'all have installed.

[00:14:05]And now the chaos that you've created, the lies, the matrix that you've created is crumbling.

[00:14:13]And here's the thing.

[00:14:16]What scares me about you all is that you know this is happening. Your spirit is telling [music] you that this is happening. That's why you're upset that black people are not protesting with [music] y'all. We're not communicating with y'all. We're not doing none of those things because you are understanding who we really are.

[00:14:35][music] And we are coming to understand who we really are. We are breaking our own generational curses and y'all are not ready for that. [music] And what I advise my black family, continue to evolve. There's a spiritual ele elevation that we are all taking part in.

[00:14:57]Just rest.

[00:14:59]Just rest. Stay in your home. Love on your family. Plant your gardens. You know, do your thing and rest.

[00:15:08]the DES the Destiny swap contract has run its course. Every everything is gonna be okay.

[00:15:14]>> It really hurt my feeling and burns my heart that I even have to include Africans, Jamaicans, Haitians, and when I talk about, you know what I'm saying, the black community and how they're not a part of it. Because growing up, I really used to look at myself as an African [ __ ] Like, I'm not going to lie, I looked at us all the same. I did not see no difference between Africans versus us or other black people from different parts of the world versus black Americans until I got older. And they made me realize that we are nothing alike. Like we are nothing alike. We are alike in a lot of ways, but we are not alike. Like I really used to think that we was all the same, bro. Like I really used to think we was just like them.

[00:15:55]Like I grew up in a school that taught us a lot of the stuff the principles of my aunt Naga Saba. You know what I'm saying? that taught us to celebrate Kwanza instead of Christmas. That just taught us about culture, our culture overall and how everything. But then when I come and step out into the world and they really think that they're better in us, they really think that they're doing something more than what black people could have did. Oh, how we come down here and do ABC and y'all didn't. You know how many races Jamaicans I encountered alone this year?

[00:16:23]Like I really used to think that there was no difference between me and them until I got older AND REALIZED LIKE THEY DON'T LIKE US NEITHER. LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW. I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW. I LOOKED AT US ALL THE SAME. I DIDN'T never was one of them racist them black Americans THAT WAS RACIST OR AFRICAN. NO, BRO. LIKE YOU ARE ME. I AM YOU. LIKE WE GOT THE SAME PROBLEMS WHEN I REALIZED WE DON'T EVEN THINK the same. Not even about our hair.

[00:16:51]And that's a different topic for a different time. Granted, we can go with the oh, black people don't love their hair. Black people don't love their forcy hair and [ __ ] But, you know, I ain't even gonna start on that because that's topic for a different time. When I have so many Jamaicans, other races around me coming to America, THEY LIKE, "Y'ALL GOT PERMS AIN'T POPULAR AROUND HERE. Y'ALL AIN'T GOT NOBODY DOING PERMS. YOU AIN'T GOT NOBODY doing ABC."

[00:17:11]Like, nah, baby. Y'all don't wear perms in my head. Like, maybe back when I was a child. You know what I'm saying? ain't had no choice cuz [ __ ] ain't want to work with this black beautiful hair or ain't know how to work with this black beautiful hair.

[00:17:24]UM EVEN JUST THAT THAT'S JUST THE THE BARE MINIMUM. But coming around them and they really will let you know you ain't nothing LIKE ME. THEY LOOK AT US LIKE WE THE ONES WITH THE CULTURE, we the ones with the this. We the ones with the that. Like y'all the ignorance of all the uh of all the black people, black Americans are the ignorance. the ones we but want to be I ain't going to say want to be like us so bad but you do LIKE ALL THE CULTURE THAT Y'ALL do and everything a lot of stuff that y'all do is black American culture like you feel me like I ain't saying nobody doing no you know just I'm a little censored I'm be a little censored moral of the story is I hate that it had to even come to this point because I really used to look at me like a Africanamean instead of a black American I really looked at us as like one and the same. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, we all got the same problem just in different ways, you know? But they came down here and and made me feel like you you ain't nothing like me. You could never your ancestors could never do what mine did. They just two totally different mindsets. Two totally different people. I feel like Jamaicans, Africans, and not all of them, but a lot of them, they be whitewashed, bro. Like, they look at black people just how everybody else look at black people. And that's like one of the most star shooking things that happened WHEN I REALIZED LIKE, OH [ __ ] I GUESS I'M NOT [screaming] ONE OF Y'ALL. LIKE, LET ME let me change my mindset. Let me change the trajectory because I hate having to include them when I say y'all too. I'm not supporting y'all's businesses either. Only black American business and how I really stand on that because I didn't realize how much they don't like us. Not knowing that a lot of black Americans paved the way for y'all to even be able to come down here and do what the y'all doing now because of how we fought for this and y'all want to come down here like y'all better than us. Y'all really need to be saying thank you. What the you talking about, bro? Y'all need to be saying thank you for real. For real. I'm not even going to cap to you. LIKE WE GOT HURT AND beat so y'all can walk. We walk so y'all can.

[00:19:25]>> So y'all, I literally thought that the Diaspora Wars were fake. I thought they were fake. I didn't think they were real. you know, I'm chilling. I'm like, you know, I don't think all this internet [ __ ] is real. Blah, blah, blah.

[00:19:37]I fly from my hometown. I get here and I realize, oh, no, no, no. I'm so sorry to say, but black Americans look very much down on Africans. They look down on them. And let me tell you how I know this, okay? So, at the PWI, I go to people, and I don't want no comments telling me, "Oh, you can tell. You can tell. People here can't tell where I'm from.

[00:20:01]people here, okay? [snorts] Especially because in the first half of the semester, I had straight hair, straight wavy hair, and it was just a sew in, but whatever. People here can't tell where I'm from, especially the the black Americans here. I've gotten that I'm Afro Latina. I've gotten that. Don't like I don't I already can tell the comments, okay, I've gotten it and I've gotten that I am Caribbean or Jamaican or um they just think I'm something else. They've never thought I was African whatsoever. I think [snorts] it's because I don't have any of the the cues. I don't dress weird. I don't dress a certain way and I don't talk a certain way. I had made friends with this one guy. He is black American. And we just chilling. I told him I'm from Nigeria.

[00:20:45]Like that's where I'm from. He's like, first he said, "You don't look Nigerian." Already red flag. I was already like, "What do Nigerians look like?" Sir, inform me of what Nigerians look like cuz I'm pretty sure I look south Nigerian. So I said, "That's cuz you don't know what Nigerians look like." That shut him up. And then from then on, we just kept talking and he would make slight comments. Oh, you look this. You look Afro, you look you look different. I think he trying to separate me from being African. So in bed. I was like, "No, I'm African." Point blank period. We were then taking a walk outside and he was like, "Oh, just one advice. Don't hang out with those Africans." I was like, "What?"

[00:21:26][clears throat] I you know I'm African, right?

[00:21:28]Or the reasons he gave for that was like, "Oh, they're so like weird.

[00:21:33]They're so fresh off the boat. Like they're not like they so like don't hang out with them. Hang out with our people and shit." And I was like, "What the [ __ ] is you? What the is going on?" I was like, you know, I'm African right?

[00:21:45]Like what is with all this comment? So I was like, boom, that's just one person, right? No, literally every single black American I've met has very derogatory like prejudice ideas about Africans. um in general they literally I think they just saying a lot of stuff like like the women aren't cute like that they're just like weirdos and I don't know it's just a lie y'all the diaspora wars are real as the moment a black American finds out that you're African it's it's raps for you I don't know how it it is everywhere else but >> hey y'all y'all don't find it weird that now that I'll say this started in this this really started when we started saying like we don't want to be affiliated with y'all like that and stop calling us African-Americans or black Americans stuff like that. Once we started saying that now everybody's switching up if y'all pee and I'm about to explain it. I don't care what nobody say. In the very beginning everybody was saying they're at like where they're from. So when you meet somebody they but oh I'm African. when you meet, oh, I'm Jamaican. Jamaican. Stand up. Bad man.

[00:22:55]Bad man. Bad girl. Bad girl. Or they'll be like, "I'm from Barbados. I'm from DR. I'm Puerto Rican. [ __ ] Dominican."

[00:23:04]You get what I'm saying? Right now that we like, all right, we're going about straight black Americans and we only claim our lineage. Now all of a sudden, everybody wants to use the word black.

[00:23:14]Now, now all of a sudden, oh, you never said that. We all black. How yall trying to tell us we ain't black? This that.

[00:23:20]It's like, what's wrong with y'all?

[00:23:23]Why is it now that we don't want to associ associate with that African-American word that y'all all of a sudden want to be black now? Because technically you're you're melanated. If you want to be technically black is a social construct from America. So if you want to say I'm melanated Jamaican, you can say that cuz we're all we all have melanin. Black is not even really a thing when you think about it. That's what make it so weird because it's like why y'all want to claim something that was given to us by America. Y'all are really melanated beings from different continents, islands, and countries.

[00:23:59]Nobody's not saying that y'all are not that. You get what I'm saying? Nobody's saying that y'all are not Melanie. So where y'all getting this from? Oh, they saying we not black. You're not black Americans, but we not taking the color from y'all.

[00:24:14]That's why I say I think they just want a reason to copy everything we do. They just want a reason to copy. That's just the answer. [laughter] >> Brothers and sisters, when Eopians were exploring the Americas, they saw their people who were black. It was recorded in the books that many of them wrote.

[00:24:31]They said that these people were black.

[00:24:34]They had thriving communities. They had their own ongoing civilizations. These people were black. And later recently these people were classified as Africanameans due to [snorts] the fact that there were some of them who were taken from Africa they were all classified into one collective group Africanamean. But now because many black Americans are going back trying to understand their history, trying to understand their lineage, they're reading many of those books, many of those notes that were written by these explorers and they're [snorts] being shocked to find that these explorers have already witnessed black people staying there on the Americas before even transatics of trade. and they are coming out here on internet.

[00:25:29]They're preaching these truths to you know vas who were not taught this in school. And I'm seeing many Africans fighting this and I'm really saying that is very wrong. It is wrong for you as a person to deny the truth of the history that doesn't belong to you. is wrong for you African to deny the fact that black Americans say that they were there before transatl trade as long as you are not the owner of that history and all of these issues are sparking diaspora war on social media but I'm telling you the solution for all of this is very simple all we need to do is to respect each other's boundaries we Africans wherever we are listen to black Americans and understand what they are asking for is very simple. They're telling us Africans to respect their boundaries, to understand that they've got their own lineage, to respect their history, to stop trying to act as if we know better than what they know about their history.

[00:26:36]So, they are basically asking for things that we should be giving them without even asking. And y black Americans, [snorts] you've heard many Africans giving testimonies of how they were disrespected by black Americans.

[00:26:52]I understand that there are some black Americans who tend to disrespect Africans. I don't really support this and I think it should be called out. But when you even dig deep and try to understand why some of these black Americans tend to disrespect our African brothers and sisters, it is probably because of bad experiences they've had with them. They were probably working with them at the workplaces. And these black Africans or black Caribbeans tended to be more friendly to people from other races instead of being friendly to their fellow brothers and sisters from the black American community. And these bad experiences that black Americans have had with these Africans made them to think that all Africans are like that. And whenever they see an African around them, they tend to be upset. They tend to be angry because they remember the kinds of experiences that they've had with them.

[00:27:49]Now, black Americans [snorts] and African are two communities that really need each other. Africans need to learn from black Americans because black Americans are experienced with dealing with the issues that are not common in other countries out of the USA and the all black immigrants. You need to applaud these black Americans and tell you the best way to survive in a community that tends to look down on black people every time. And also y'all black Americans, you need to probably approach these Africans and learn from their history. Understand Africa as how it is instead of being fed with the news that tended to portray Africa as a poor continent. Now all I'm asking you all is to respect each other. I don't really support any group, any community, any person disrespecting the other. Yes, we might have some misunderstandings and that happens everywhere, but that small misunderstanding shouldn't really cause a division between two communities that should be helping each other to get over those problems. Now, that was my take on this video. I want you all who have watched this video tell me what you thought about what people were saying.

[00:29:04]probably had your own experiences with Africans, Caribbeans, or even other black immigrants in the USA. Or you are an immigrant and you've had your own experience with black Americans. I want you to share your story with us down there in the comment section. That was it for today. Mr. TA, your African brother signing off. Ciao.