AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 🇿🇦 Video Goes Viral 😳 (American Reacts)

Added: 2026-06-02

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[00:00:13]Let's get right into it, man.

[00:00:14]>> What South Africans seem to be saying is that the illegal immigrants in South Africa, it has become a real problem where it's taking away resources and the types of immigrants that are coming are really people that are not of great character in the countries that they've originated from. I don't think it's unreasonable for South Africans to say, "Listen, we do not want these negative behaviors, this dangerous activity. We don't want this in our country. That's that's fair." Now, what I'll say in contrast, which is why so many Americans have been confused about what was happening in South Africa, is that the immigration issue here in America, by and large, especially like I live in New York. New York is very multicultural. There's a lot of people from a lot of places. Many, many of us, including myself, are first generation.

[00:00:58]My parents are immigrants. I'm East African. So, a lot of us are used to seeing people from different cultures.

[00:01:04]And my parents came here legally. That's not the issue. But even then, for the most part, even when people are not here with their papers and their and documents and then there's a lot of different things. A lot of the people just trying to live their lives. Us in America, whereas I think South Africans, the problem really is South Africans that are trying to curb the violence and the prostitution and all of the illegal activity and drugs. The South Africans themselves are trying to curb these behaviors that are permeating their country in certain areas. Whereas in the United States, it's more like the government has an agenda against the immigrants.

[00:01:44]>> Bro, I've been preaching Hey, she's saying everything I've been saying, dog.

[00:01:48]Every Like every day that's coming out her mouth is exactly what I've been saying, dog.

[00:01:53]Word for word, bar for bar.

[00:01:55]>> If the government didn't have such a heavy hand in terms of how they're viewing illegal immigration, as Americans, I think most people, because they're not so directly affected on a day-to-day basis, most people probably would not be thinking about this as a an issue that affects their day-to-day at all. And I I am not offended by anything on social media. I really just don't care. So, the people that just automatically have this hair trigger reaction and just that want to be mean and saying, "Stay out of our business."

[00:02:21]I mean, that's fair, you know, that's that's very fair. I'm not owed anything.

[00:02:25]And I don't pretend like I'm owed anything, but if that's how you want to interact, like you're not going to get that from me. I don't come here to argue with people, and my default is not to argue with people. And I I never really understood that, how everybody on social media just just it's the the default is to be contentious. The default is to be combative. The default is to be argumentative.

[00:02:45]>> Now, she's cooking, y'all. She's cooking. Hey.

[00:02:49]>> Shazam.

[00:02:49]>> Shazam. Hey, fam, she's cooking, bro, cuz hey, everything that she's saying on the nail, bro. On the nail.

[00:02:57]Even when I'm live on Tik Tok, I experience the same thing. Like people in the comments talk about June 30th June 30th. Bro, I'm not even I'm not even in a country illegally, you know what I'm saying? So, it sucks it sucks to be in a situation of what's going on and be in a country where some people make you feel like you shouldn't be there because of the problems that they have with other people, you know what I'm saying? When you here, you mind your own business, you feel me, you you do what you But there there there's those few, bro, that's just June like some about June 30th people want they want people to leave on June 30th, and then you're caught up into the mess. So, I do feel for maybe some of the ones that are here, and they not even, you know what I'm saying? Because I've I've experienced it, and you know what I'm saying? I get it. When I go live on Tik Tok, bro, you'll see it. You'll see it every every time I go live. It's not like no once off thing. No, this is when I go live on Tik Tok anytime. They're telling me to go home. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Insane, bro.

[00:03:53]Let's get right to >> That's That's not even where I'm going with anything. Like if I'm asking a question, I'm asking the question. There There's nothing behind it. Why in the world would I want to attack South Africans? What What's What is my even What do I gain from that?

[00:04:07]>> A growing debate is unfolding online as black Americans react to events involving South Africa, specifically xenophobia. Uh you got a lot of South Africans >> But before we get into this, I like what she said that the reason why the US cuz I always think about when I'm home and where it's it's a very very diverse place, like she said, like we see immigrants, we see people from all over the world all the time, and we're not really thinking about, "Oh, are you documented?

[00:04:37]Oh, um how long is your visa? Are you here?"

[00:04:40]You know what I'm saying? We don't never think about those type of things when we see people from different backgrounds and stuff like that. And like she said, I don't know if it's because are we We're not affected affected directly or or what it is. I don't know I don't I really don't know, you know what I mean?

[00:04:57]But I'm glad she did bring that up cuz that's exactly what I've been thinking when I'm when I'm here in South Africa.

[00:05:02]I'm like, "Bro, like I've never I never thought I would experience someone asking me, you know what I'm saying? What visa you on? When you going home?" Or you know what I'm saying? Those type of questions because in the US, you know what I'm saying? I'm just talking about my experiences from back home.

[00:05:19]And people from other countries coming in and staying at We You don't really think about that. You don't think about they overstayed or you don't think about um I don't know. You just don't think about those type of things, man. And like she said, I don't know if it's maybe not we're not affected the same way directly as people who that live in South Africa.

[00:05:39]I don't know, man, but yeah.

[00:05:41]>> who are abusing black Africans who are not from South Africa. I mean, they are upset at them for real. They're mad because according to them they are coming there and draining their resources. Yeah, so they're jumping on them, fam. They're beating them up, doing all kinds of stuff to them. Now, my question is this, uh what did they do to them white folks when they were out there uh >> [clears throat] >> stealing their resources and and I'm talking about major I ain't talking about uh clinical resources. Uh I'm not talking about uh the government aid. I'm talking about land.

[00:06:19]Yeah, what about that? You know, what did they do about that?

[00:06:24]So, uh I just wanted to make sure fam I was the only one out there, you know, uh with this mindset because I I do not understand how uh these people can allow uh others to do them any kind of way and they can bow down even right now in South Africa uh there's a whole whole lot of black people uh in South Africa they can't even go to certain neighborhoods without getting jumped.

[00:06:47]Yeah, they can't go to certain neighborhoods that are not black without getting jumped.

[00:06:55]But, they're swinging on their own people. They got a lot of vitriol for non-South Africans. Yeah, fam. Uh non-black South Africans.

[00:07:04]>> The Nigerians know that they're problematic. They agree that they're problematic in every country. So, I'm [snorts] in London right now and yesterday I had an interaction with some Nigerians. Well, since I've been here when I come across Nigerians, especially all Africans, they keep asking me about the xenophobia in South Africa. But, yesterday I had a maybe 1-hour-long banter with three Nigerians, two males and one female.

[00:07:34]First of all, Nigerians know what they're doing. Guys, they know that they're problematic. They know that they go to countries and they are causing problems. What they have a problem with is something being done with them being problematic.

[00:07:49]You know, that's what they have an issue with is that whenever they're problematic, nothing should be done.

[00:07:54]>> [clears throat] >> But they realize they said they like half of the time, most of the time in that conversation they were saying that they know that they are doing something wrong. But South Africans shouldn't do anything about it. It must be the authorities that must do something about it, not the actual South Africans, you know? South Africans have no business in taking action.

[00:08:15]Okay, so in this back and forth that I was having, the two males were the ones where they were saying that South Africans shouldn't be doing anything to Africans in in in in South Africa, whether they're doing something wrong or not. It shouldn't be the South Africans that are doing something. It must be, you know, the authorities. The lady was saying, "But they shouldn't be doing something wrong anyway. Why are they not in their country doing something wrong in their own country? Why are you going to other countries doing something wrong, right?"

[00:08:43]Now, I had to come in and say, "Guys, first of all, you must realize that people are tired. You know, these are normal people. Most of the people that are retaliating or taking action, because people are not really retaliating, they are really taking action, are people who are in most cases underprivileged. They don't have the privilege of having to, you know, um take make things happen quick. You know, they've had it. They've had enough, you know? And most of these videos that they are showing, the videos [snorts] that they were showing me, are people that are like in the in the in the in the in the ghettos, you know?

[00:09:21]Those are the people that the the the authorities are not listening to. The authorities are not taking care of them and they are tired. They are tired. I even made an example and I said, "Listen, you know, there are so many foreigners in the townships that have spaza shops and these spaza shops, apparently, allegedly, have been selling, you know, expired food to kids.

[00:09:40]Kids have died. Do you think that a mother who has lost three children is going to wait to go to court and and follow like the law proceedings that take longer when things continue to go wrong, when people continue to lose their children? At some point, the community is going to take matters into their own hands because things can be slow, you know? And also, I just want to point out, you know, a Nigerian in the UK, a Nigerian living in London is not the same Nigerian that we have in South Africa. I even pointed this out. I said, "Here in in in London, you guys are well-behaved because you know that the minute you don't obey the law here, your visa is revoked, you go to jail." But in South Africa, we have a lot of undocumented, illegal Nigerians who are there, you know, who we cannot be traced, and even if something happens, the law or the authorities won't take action sooner.

[00:10:37]That's the problem that we are having.

[00:10:38]Why is it that you guys are so well-behaved in the UK, but you're not well-behaved in South Africa? Nizenzelo mathanda, you know? So, it was a long back and forth banter, but at the end of the day, guys, let me tell you this, Nigerians are just very nonchalant. I even mentioned to you, "You guys are having children being kidnapped. There's 50 children right now in Nigeria that are being kidnapped, babies or kids, you know? Nobody's talking about that.

[00:11:02]There's a focus on South Africa being xenophobic. You guys are focusing on the attacks. You know why you guys are attacking Africans? Aren't those children that you traffic, aren't those children that you Whatever that has happened recently to the children, aren't those African children?

[00:11:18]Are they not African children?

[00:11:20]So, this whole thing of the xenophobia, in conclusion, you know, South Africans being xenophobic, I just feel like Nigerians, and I'm not talking to all Nigerians, I'm talking to the specific ones, the ones that are wrong, the ones that are doing the wrong things.

[00:11:33]Nigerians feel so entitled.

[00:11:39]You know, they feel so entitled to what's happening in South Africa, the government taking care of South Africans. One thing that I heard from one of the guys was like, "You know, South African men are so lazy. You know, they're so lazy. They they just lazy. If you compare them to us, they're so lazy." And I said to them, "Listen, you guys are speaking from a place of entitlement because you feel like you don't have the type of privilege that a South African man has. You know, it's like when you talk about a rich kid who has a father who has been putting money aside for them and they say like, 'I've put money aside for you so that by the time you reach 18, you've got your own Mercedes-Benz and your own um you know, business or whatever.' And then you start saying, 'Oh, this child is so lazy. This child'" If there's means for you, there's no need for you to be working hard. The reason why is why you guys have to work this hard is because your government doesn't give you anything. You run away from your country because of your government.

[00:12:35]So, you like you cannot be blaming South African men for that. They're not lazy.

[00:12:40]They're not lazy. In their country, they work. In their country, they have the privileges that you don't have.

[00:12:46]So, this is my take on this South Africa xenophobia thing from Linda, you know?

[00:12:52]The Nigerians, they do say that they are wrong, but they the South the South Africans shouldn't do anything about it.

[00:12:59]The civilians shouldn't do anything about it. It must be the authorities that must >> I agree. I agree with that because I understand like they can't wait around and just wait for the government, but they shouldn't have to. It shouldn't come to the point where they have to do anything. The government should already step up and and do what they are supposed to do, you know what I mean? So, that's why I agree, but then I don't agree because are they supposed to wait? You feel me?

[00:13:22]But, I just I just feel like they shouldn't have to be in a position where they have to do anything. I think that's the real the real way of saying, you you know what I mean, of what should happen. They shouldn't be in a position where they feel like they have to take matters in their own hand. The government should already be, you know, doing their job and controlling the situation and doing the proper things to keep the country safe.

[00:13:41]That's That's how I feel.

[00:13:42]>> Take action. Let me know what you know what you think.

[00:13:45]>> Yeah, that's how I feel, man. That's the end of the video. But look, man, let me know y'all thoughts.

[00:13:48]>> [music] >> You feel me? This has been This has been going on for the whole of 2026 really, you know what I'm saying? This has been the conversation. I've been kind of staying away from it, you know what I'm saying, sitting back, but >> [music] >> I don't know. It always comes to me, definitely on my Tik Tok when I go live, but hey, those are my thoughts, man, cuz every time I go live on Tik Tok, you guys are asking me what my thoughts are on this whole situation.

[00:14:09]Those are my thoughts, man.

[00:14:10]>> [music] >> Every Every comment that I had through this video, definitely the lady in the beginning, she hit the nail on the head, bro. Like everything she said, I feel like, [music] yeah, I I agree with her. But um let me know what your thoughts are. I hope you guys enjoy my reaction, my commentary. Do you smash [music] a like, sub channel, guys. Stay tuned for the next one, man. Peace.