AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS REALIZE BLACK AMERICANS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG & ARE NOT LAZY

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]You know, we got stereotypes on the other side too, cuz you got um Africans thinking that, you know, black Americans are lazy and, you know, don't work hard. Don't understand the systemic situation. Don't understand the history. They don't understand enough about the civil rights movement and, you know, the result of chattel slavery and Jim Crow laws and mass incarceration.

[00:00:21]So, it's a lot of mis-education on both sides. It got people thinking the worst of each other. And even with that, there's the idea, like I've heard Africans say black Americans are lazy, you know, I came to this country with XYZ and look at what I've accomplished. Now, when Africans come to America, they're busting their behinds to get degrees, become doctors, lawyers, and stuff like that. So, when Africans look at African Americans, they're like, "These people have credit cards. We don't even have credit cards. These people are not even working and we come here, we busting our asses and now we're doing this is we're now six figures and So, before coming to USA, the American government had painted this image about the black Americans in my head, making me to think that the black Americans are useless, they're violent, they have the opportunity but they choose not to use it, rather go around causing violence left and right.

[00:01:10]>> [music] >> If I ever get stuck in a situation, I shouldn't call a black person for help or I shouldn't run to a black person for help, rather I should run to a white person.

[00:01:17]>> Hello, good people. Welcome to African Commentary. Here we learn and grow every day. And if you're new here, kindly consider subscribing, liking, and sharing the videos. I would really, really appreciate. Most people always say that black Americans are lazy, black Americans don't want to work. But when these people get to America, is when they realize, "No, it's not black American, it's the system and how things are." So, in this video today, we are going to watch some videos whereby people get the realization that the American dream is no longer true and you need to work to succeed. So, before I speak much, let's watch the videos and then I'm going to give my two cents at the end. Also, let me know what you think about this in the comment section down below. Now, when Africans come to America, they're busting their behinds to get degrees, become doctors, lawyers, and stuff like that. So, when Africans look at African Americans, they're like, "These people have credit cards. We don't even have credit cards. These people are not even working and we busting our asses and now we're doing this is we're now six figures and these people have all these years to become all these great jobs and careers That is an absolutely diabolical claim to make. I mean, she just sat there and said that that I guess Africans are saying that we don't work.

[00:02:38]Um you know, they come over here and then they get all these degrees and they, you know, to become a doctor and a lawyer and blah blah blah blah.

[00:02:45]And what I notice about a lot of African immigrants or just immigrants in general, it's not even always just the Africans.

[00:02:53]Um they only like to compare themselves to a certain demographic of black Americans. Like they only pay attention and focus in their their in their vision the stereotypical black American that they either see on TV or that they read about or that they gossip about.

[00:03:15]Um they only pay attention to those black Americans, to the ones that are living in poverty. They never pay attention. They never make mention to the multitudes of black Americans who are very educated. Black American women are especially are very highly educated.

[00:03:31]Um I know so many nurses. I know black millionaires personally myself that live here in Cleveland. Um I have friends that make money into the six figures.

[00:03:41]So, it's like you know, they only want to pay attention to the ones who are doing less than they are. And come Yeah, this is the conversation. It's like, "Y'all have all this time to get free money, free loans, and we don't get that back at home." Yeah, but what y'all get that when y'all come here, though. Exactly.

[00:03:58]And guess what? We're right here and y'all are still There's a lot of It's like once again, another just absolutely diabolical statement. Like we're up here and you guys are down here. Who are you comparing yourself to?

[00:04:11]Why can't you compare your numbers to our millionaires?

[00:04:15]Why don't you compare your salary to our millionaires? Make that comparison.

[00:04:20]And then you're also there's a massive gap between the number of black American natural born black Americans that live in this country, 40 million plus, than actual sub-Saharan African immigrants.

[00:04:35]There's a huge difference.

[00:04:37]Everybody from Africa doesn't come over here.

[00:04:40]Like everybody is not going to be successful anyway. Like I I don't understand. It's kind of like it's almost like they feel like in order for them to elevate or to feel above, they have to put their foot on top of us to and try to put us down lower so they can feel higher. That's what it sounded like to me.

[00:04:58]And like I've been to West Africa before. I went to Ghana before, right?

[00:05:01]So, I've seen first hand the differences in a lot of the just the the lifestyle, the poverty, and things like that. And when black Americans go and visit like African countries, they're not coming back over here telling each other like, "Man, those Africans, man, they lazy, man. Their countries is they they got slums all over. They ain't They ain't even got They don't even have electricity that runs all day. They don't even have air conditioners. They don't Their running water doesn't stay on. It doesn't stay hot or whatever. The pipe systems are [ __ ] up." You know, half the time you can't find a damn public bathroom. Like they're not coming back here complaining. They're coming back here like, "Wow, the food was amazing. It's natural. The people are friendly. It's cool." And but they could easily do what y'all do, do what the Africans do, come over here and pick and pinpoint all of the negatives and say, "Oh, Africans they're they're all lazy because their country is [ __ ] up because they never, you know, pulled themselves themselves up by their bootstraps after colonialism, after the Europeans left or whatever." Like they could easily just say that.

[00:06:07]But that's not a fair statement because it doesn't That's not the You don't have the full story. So, that's the reason why when black people and if from America visit like African countries, third world countries, they're not coming back and talking all that [ __ ] because they know that there's a there's a big piece to that story.

[00:06:24]There's a lot of history there that we really can't speak on. But yet, when they come over here, they feel like they have something to prove and they feel like oh well, um they're I guess they're better than us because they had they like she was saying in another part of the video Black Americans are in their own bowl as well. Like that's That's what I'm saying.

[00:06:46]That's why Africans feel that way because they feel like because you don't know where you come from, which is not by fault by Africa.

[00:06:53]>> where we come from. We come from America, just like Jamaica. I guess it's just more You know, we already know our culture and we know where we come from and blah blah blah blah. Like it's just very disingenuous.

[00:07:05]You know, we got stereotypes on the other side too, cuz you got um Africans thinking that, you know, black Americans are lazy and, you know, don't work hard. Don't understand the systemic situation. Don't understand the history. They don't understand enough about the civil rights movement and, you know, the result of chattel slavery and Jim Crow laws and mass incarceration.

[00:07:27]So, it's a lot of mis-education on both sides. It got people thinking the worst of each other. And even with that, there's the idea, like I've heard Africans say black Americans are lazy, you know, I came to this country with XYZ and look at what I've accomplished. And I'm like, "You came to this country with nothing, true. But you came to this country with a different mindset." Yeah. You came to this country with uh the mindset [clears throat] of equality and uh and confidence and superiority that you that has been instilled in you because you grew up in that a nation where everybody looks like you. And the fact that you were able to come here at some point in time means you did have at some point there was some level of privilege instilled in you where you were able to leave Africa and come here. [ __ ] Ooh, yes. Yeah.

[00:08:15]I'm going to get some job.

[00:08:17]I actually love this response of how unbothered they were when an African immigrant was telling the black Americans that we are lazy, we don't have jobs, and we're on welfare. I think I am going to be implementing this as well. What do you think? Yep, that's right. Black Americans, none of us have jobs. Yep, we're all lazy. Yep, we're all on welfare. Yep, that's exactly true. That's what we do. I feel like it can work for so many things. Black women are all single mothers. Yep, we're all single mothers, absolutely. Yep, we none of us let the fathers ever see their kids. That's right. Yes, we're also all bullheaded. Yep, all true. Yep. Do you think that's an effective new strategy?

[00:08:55]Just to be unbothered and again, just show how ridiculous their claim is?

[00:08:59]>> [snorts] >> Or should we correct? What do you think?

[00:09:02]When the slave plantation owner would go to the black mom and say, "Oh, Toby's doing really good out there. He picking most of cotton. You doing excellent." The black mother would say, "No, master. He shiftless. He's lazy."

[00:09:14]Because that mother knew in that moment that that master was going to sell her son to another plantation. And so, instinctually, she had to begin to talk bad about him, to demean him. And so, we're talking enslavement ended in 1865 and these things are still happening today. DNA And so, this is the depth with which I'm talking about it. And we only talk about it on this superficial level like skin bleaching cream is just beauty and that colonialism was just borders, we will never get past it until we begin talking about the depths in which it exists.

[00:09:49]>> it's permeated into our soul.

[00:09:51]>> was an experiment in the way we thinking and the way we feel and the what we >> in our DNA >> Why we so stupid? There was an they did on some rats, right? These rats in a box, you know how they like to put rats in a box. So, they had these rats and these rats would come to this certain line and they would shock the rats.

[00:10:07]They would just shock them for months.

[00:10:09]Every time they hit a certain area of the box if by the edge of the box they would shock them and the rats would run back.

[00:10:14]They did it for months. So, the rats had offspring. Yep.

[00:10:19]And then the offspring didn't even go to the line.

[00:10:23]The offspring before they got the offspring would never leave the box because it was literally generally it was trauma. So, what God is describing is this type is what we call epigenetics. Epi is the Latin prefix that that means above. And so, epigenetics is this this program that sits just above your DNA. So, like we call it it's not a modification where they actually changes the DNA. But if we talked about it from a construction standpoint, it wouldn't be me knocking down a wall. It would be painting over an air conditioning vent. It doesn't change the structure of the room, but it changes its functionality.

[00:10:57]We first learned about intergenerational trauma when we saw clinicians looking at their rosters and all their clients were the children of Jewish Holocaust survivors.

[00:11:08]These kids had never been in the Holocaust. These young adults had never been in the Holocaust, but their parents were. As a result of that, we began to study how can trauma be passed down from a group to a group when that secondary group never actually experienced the trauma. And so, what they found was that for these Holocaust survivors, they would go they would go to their grandparents' house and they would have curtains over the balcony. They would tell them, "Don't tell anybody you're Jewish. Don't let anybody know." because they were literally scared for their lives. That across generations implants on our DNA like I described this epigenetics.

[00:11:48]And when we're when we're talking about these interactions and how we interface with one another, how we interface with others it's not just about learning.

[00:11:57]It's about understanding that you deliberately have to make a decision that is different from your automatic thought because it is ingrained in you to develop separation as a result of years and years and years. When we talk about people who move from South Carolina to Chicago and pass for white, they weren't self-hating. They just wanted their lineage to live. That's it.

[00:12:21]They just wanted to survive. They knew they knew that people were hanging from trees. My grandfather would see people hanging from trees when he was growing up.

[00:12:28]>> Yeah.

[00:12:29]And so, if if if I had I don't I can't say I would, but if I had the ability to pass as white in 1921 >> have passed.

[00:12:38]>> have. I would have been in the club.

[00:12:39]>> I might have. And so, listen. And so, we have to begin having this conversation. But as time goes on I began to realize something. The narrative was crazy. I told myself this about exposure. [music] So, to tell myself, let me come out and say these things. It might help somebody who's in Africa that wants to come up here or it might help someone who's here in America and is still struggling to balance these two things.

[00:13:02]>> [music] >> I've been living in America for 3 years now. And believe me when I tell you this I've lived enough to tell you nothing else but the truth. You see, my whole journey of truthfulness and research or history started 7 months ago when I got to realize that I've been put in a world or a society [music] which is filled with lies, deception, propaganda. And that it made me to reason just one side of the coin and not on both side. In order for you to know the truth, you have to keep asking the right question.

[00:13:24]You have to keep reading research. Like research one or two things in order for you to get the right answers. And when I finally did, I realized that no, all these things were all [ __ ] were BS.

[00:13:33]One of the nicest people I've met so far were the black people. One of the best colleagues or bosses I've had so far were the black people. I'm not saying this because I want to water down the white race or say something [music] evil about them. No. I'm saying this out of my own experience. If you went ahead and asked other Africans in America, they might say the white people. That is their own experience. This is mine, all right? So, all this made me to ask this question. Like Brandon, was all this worth was all this distancing myself from my black brothers and sisters worth it? Hell, no. Let me tell you guys those people who had actually made my days here in America horrible.

[00:14:02]>> [music] >> Like they've literally given me the worst days in America. They're not even the white people or the Spanish or the Mexican or the Hispaniolas. No. They are the Africans living in America.

[00:14:11]Those Africans that have been here in America for like 20, 30 years ago or maybe 10 years in America. Yes, those ones. I'm talking about them.

[00:14:17]Those are the people that have actually given me the worst days in America.

[00:14:20][music] Like bro, the Africans living in in America especially those that even got job opportunities for you. Yeah, those ones.

[00:14:27]They still have that mentality that they have to steal a dollar or two from you in order for [music] them to to feel richer or to feel smarter. You understand? Like they have to cheat you some one or two dollar before they know that yes, I've arrived. I've done it.

[00:14:39]I'm becoming rich or I'm becoming richer every day.

[00:14:42]That is how they still feel which is horrible. Let me take you back to history. You see, about 80, 90 years ago Africans could not travel out of Africa and come to America and have these privileges [music] and have these opportunities and work here in America.

[00:14:54]Like what is happening right now? No, it wasn't like this. [music] You see, there were people that actually fought for all these things to happen. And one of those people that fought all those people that actually fought for these things were Martin [music] Luther King Jr. We also have John Lewis. We have W. E. B. Du Bois. [music] These were the people and many more other African Americans that actually fought for America. They were not fighting because they want Africans to come to America and begin to enjoy these benefits. No. They were literally fighting against a system that actually said, "No, you guys will not survive." A system that was meant to erase them, to take them out of picture. They were fighting for their generation, for their children. They were fighting for the black Americans. They were not fighting for the Africans. No, they never did.

[00:15:31]But for us Africans back home, we are cowards because we can't even fight for ourselves. We are the real cowards. We are we are the real lazy ones. Because we just choose to allow our government and politicians to use us as they want, to do whatever shenanigans they want to do with the country and we do nothing.

[00:15:47]We can't do anything. And when we come to a country like America that like the blacks have fought their life up like put in their blood and sweat we now say, "Yeah. Yes. The black Americans are lazy. They can't do this. They can't do that." Do you even know their struggle?

[00:15:58]Do you even know what they have been through in order for them to be where they are? Damn.

[00:16:02]Like all through my life I've been saying that, you know, the black Americans are these and that. But when I came and realized all these things I was like, "Damn. They programmed me as well." They did. And let me tell you what. So many of my black brothers and sisters back home in Africa, they'll be contradicting this video because they don't know what it it is. Like they haven't seen the the real picture. They haven't seen the real image at all. They haven't seen it.

[00:16:22]These black Africans or the black Americans, sorry. They work their ass off. I've seen so many black Americans that work more than even that work more than I do. I've seen so many of them.

[00:16:31]And for us back home, we just choose to leave a government and like the government and the politicians to do whatever they can do with us, to do to to to do whatever they can do with the country. We don't fight. And what do you think about the next generation? What do you expect them to do?

[00:16:43]We also give birth to cowards. Children will grow up and say, "No, I can't do anything." In Africa, if you want to say a word, they'll be like, "Shh. Don't say it." Like your parent will be like, "Mhm." They will hold your mouth and say, "Don't say a word." because they are afraid you will die or something terrible would happen to you.

[00:16:57]But they forget that in order for change to come, there must be this bloodshed. That is how the world has been ever since. In order for positive change to come, there must be bloodshed. Nobody wants to die, but everybody wants to enjoy. So, yes. When you come to America and you see the black Americans, don't you ever say, "Oh, the black Americans, they are they are violent, they're noisy." and so on.

[00:17:16]That's what they call propaganda. In order for you to get the truth, you have to read. You have to do research in order for you to know that you must reason from both side of the coin in order for you to get the truth. You can't reason from one side of the coin and get the actual truth. And I hope that you watching this video, you will learn something today. And I hope that your perspective about the black Americans or the black people in America are so different.

[00:17:37]In fact, it is different right now. It should be different. After watching this video, it should be different. Because the black are not lazy. The black are not even lousy as you as they claim or they have been projected [music] to be.

[00:17:46]I'm telling you, these people are the nicest beings if you ever seen them or if you ever got the opportunity to meet them one-on-one and talk to them. So, then goodbye. Everybody wants to come to America. I'm like, "Are they crazy?" The food gives you acne. The police give you stress. The taxes. The people like, "Oh, I'm coming to America to make a hundred thousand US dollars." And you get that check and you're like, "Where is a hundred?" [laughter] It's going to be 39 for Trump and his boys. And then you got to pay 11% for the state. Then you got to pay social security and then you say, "I'm about to sue somebody. Where is my money? I bought things expecting this money."

[00:18:22]And [laughter] a lot of people don't realize America runs on a credit system.

[00:18:25]>> Yeah. Yeah. It's all credit. So, you can buy it, but you have to pay it back.

[00:18:30]Around the world, most houses you have to go in with cash in your hand. And so, outside of America they think they're so poor cuz they can't buy a big house like Americans. They don't own the house. The bank owns the house. They paying it for 30 years. People don't understand that.

[00:18:44]So, they dream about coming to America.

[00:18:45]I'm like, and then they come and they can't understand why their cousin who's going abroad is so depressed. I look really about to find out what we've been doing over here this whole time.

[00:18:54]With this Supreme Court they about to roll back everything we've been fighting for.

[00:19:00]And y'all about to see what black Americans have been doing this entire time.

[00:19:07]Not only that, you're about to realize how much some of y'all messed up. Like fumbled. I'm talking about fumbled the bag. Cuz all you had to do was listen to black Americans.

[00:19:17]Black Americans been telling y'all about this government for a since day one.

[00:19:24]And I'm not like here here's my thoughts on America. America is one amazing op.

[00:19:30]America is one hell of a op. Like they know they they are one hell of a op. And the way they move and the way they go over your head, like some of y'all really weren't ready.

[00:19:43]And truthfully black Americans been telling you your handbook, your hand guide is black American history. It's all documented. You want to know who they are and how they move?

[00:19:55]It's in the history. And black American history intersects with everybody else in this country.

[00:20:02]Like and to fully get an understanding of what black Americans actually did, you need to read American history. Look at how they did the European immigrants.

[00:20:12]Look at how they did the Asian community. Look at how they did women.

[00:20:16]Look at how they did the Native Americans.

[00:20:19]Like Look at how they did the Hispanic Americans. And go look at how black American history intersects with all of those groups.

[00:20:27]And all of those groups we talked about exercise anti-blackness.

[00:20:33]Even though black American history and the black American community have been in solidarity and fought for a lot of those groups. A lot of them.

[00:20:44]We done sat there and watched them Asians take down uh affirmative action. Even though they benefited more from it than the people that fought for it.

[00:20:55]And then after tearing it down, they never went back to go fight for it again. You want to know why? Because it it's easier said than done.

[00:21:03]Y'all be tearing down stuff, working against stuff that y'all did not have to fight for. And it's easier said than done. If this Supreme Court starts rolling stuff back that we fought for, I can guarantee you your bottom dollar black Americans are not fighting for it again. Not for you. It'll probably be for black people or black Americans only. I promise you that.

[00:21:24]Because black American gave you a lot on a full platter. And y'all gave the black American community your butt to kiss.

[00:21:32]The difference is black Americans know this country better than anybody.

[00:21:39]And tried to tell people, tried to warn people, tried to tell them.

[00:21:45]Nobody wanted to listen.

[00:21:48]It's always oh, what have y'all been doing? Y'all are lazy. Da da da. You going to find out when they start rolling everything back what we been doing over here this whole time. You going to find out.

[00:22:00]For my black immigrants y'all really should have known better.

[00:22:06]Because I don't understand how y'all trusted people in this country, the same people that's over there in y'all countries running a train on y'all countries with their allies.

[00:22:17]And y'all come over here and listen to those people.

[00:22:20]That's crazy to me.

[00:22:23]That is crazy to me. Cuz out of all the immigrants, y'all have first-hand experience with this government in y'all countries. And y'all come over here and be just as anti-black and anti-black American than these non-black people.

[00:22:36]Meanwhile, the people that you following behind are the same people tearing up your countries right now.

[00:22:42]And when black Americans try to help you and tell you, "Hey, don't uh-uh-uh." You let the same people convince you that we bad, the same people that's over there taking y'all resources and the same people that's the reason why you got to leave right now.

[00:22:57]Y'all about to find out how much black Americans actually did because black Americans made it look easier said It's easier said than done.

[00:23:06]Black Americans just make it look easy.

[00:23:08]Y'all about to find out.

[00:23:10]Cuz when this is all gone, y'all not fighting The Asians ain't fought for that that uh affirmative action yet.

[00:23:16]It's just not going to be.

[00:23:18]Cuz again, black Americans make it look easy. I'm telling you, y'all going to go down as the biggest bag fumblers of all time. Black Americans are more progressive. We progressed past the American dream lie.

[00:23:34]We're past that. I mean we got some people who are stuck in in their respectability politics era.

[00:23:43]But a lot of those people are first generations. They're not even black Americans. Because I'm telling you right now black Americans are past respectability politics. We're past that. Because we already tried it.

[00:23:56]It's not that we like knew already. Like we're not so enlightened by by the fact that we're black Americans.

[00:24:03]We tried everything. And that is the reason why we Every time an immigrant comes here, we try to let y'all know what the deal is with this country.

[00:24:13]And that's also why when you come into this country, they warn you about us.

[00:24:17]You think they warn you about us because we are dangerous and because No. They warn you about us because we're going to tell you the truth.

[00:24:26]You might wake up a little faster if you hang out with black Americans. That's why they don't want you hanging out with us. They don't want you near the truth tellers.

[00:24:34]Obviously.

[00:24:35]So I really do feel sorry for the immigrants that are the veil is being lifted from their eyes and they they are crashing out. I be seeing so many videos of immigrants just like you know, so upset about the things that are happening in this country and mourning the loss of the American dream in a way that black people mourn that [ __ ] >> Experience is always the best teacher because if you haven't experienced something, it's so easy for you to judge other people who have experienced it.

[00:25:03]It's so easy for you to just call them complainers, to just call them lazy, you know?

[00:25:09]But when you get to get the experience is when you realize I was wrong all along and I was judging these people the wrong way.

[00:25:17]But the good part is that when you experience that thing is when you can learn and from your experience, you can also create awareness. So while we were growing up, we really used to believe in the American dream.

[00:25:32]I don't know why, but I don't know if it's the media. Growing up, we just thought that when you are an adult, you can just go to America and all of a sudden your life is good. You get everything you want. You are rich.

[00:25:47]Only to grow up and realize it's not that way. People are working hard.

[00:25:52]People are working like three jobs, four jobs to sustain their living. As a kid, you can believe the unimaginable, you know?

[00:26:00]>> [snorts] >> You think that when I grow up, I'll just go to America. I'll just get everything nice. I will not suffer.

[00:26:07]Only for you to grow up and to realize even the process of coming from your own country going to America is not easy, especially as a black person.

[00:26:17]You have to wait for years to get that visa.

[00:26:21]You might be accepted or not. And you don't know how when you get to America, whether you'll be deported back or they'll let you stay. These are the realities that when you grow up and you read on these matters or you research more or you hear from people, especially Americans themselves is when you can learn and say, "Oh my god, I didn't know this." So at least people can learn that black Americans are not just complaining. They are just airing out the issues that they face, especially being black in the US. It's not easy being a black person. It's not easy. Not only in the US, but any other place. But the world knows the US for racism. That is something that is known worldwide. So as a black person, as an African immigrant, you need to know these things before you go there. Need to know that you have no privilege.

[00:27:17]You have no The system works against you. So don't just say that you know I'm just going to get rich all of a sudden. Black Americans are lazy. They are not doing anything. No.

[00:27:30]These people have lived there for years and years and they know much more than you.

[00:27:35]And there is a reason as to why they air out their issues the way they do. See yourself as the winner, you see? As one who has conquered the system, as one who has gotten rich quickly, as one who is not suffering. No, that's not a reality.

[00:27:50]That is fantasy.

[00:27:52]When you get there is when you can experience how life is, how things are expensive. Trump has gotten that country into something else, you know? People can't be complaining because of nothing. There has to be something.

[00:28:09]Yeah.

[00:28:11]So it's good that we have those people who have gone there and experienced for themselves and now they can share with us the reality.

[00:28:20]The reality is that it is not easy. You need to work your way through. As a black person, you need to You need to have a thick skin in order for you to survive.

[00:28:32]No one is going to give you the job opportunities on the plate. No one is No one is going to give you shelter. No one is going to give you clothing.

[00:28:40]If you have no relative over there, just know that settling in is not going to be easy. You will need to suffer for some time before you figure out things. But the good thing also we can say is that when you learn the system, when you know how it works, when you get opportunities you can be successful because we see successful people in America. So this is not to discourage those people who want to go over there. You can still have your dream. Pack your bags and go.

[00:29:11]But just keep it in mind that it's not going to be easy. That's the lie that people have been told over and over again. So with that said, guys, let me know your thoughts about this in the comment section down below. Don't forget to subscribe, like, and share. And I'll really, really appreciate it. See you in the next video. Bye.