But on a side note and maybe I’m going too far, but let me say this, it may be a surprise to the inhabitants of Blackistan, but please believe that the fate of ‘the black race’ will not fall because of the American Black Community’s  (future?) demise.  Nope. There is still a chance for black people to thrive and grow…if their of African, Afro-Latino, or Caribbean descendant.

Maybe I’m wrong, but think I’m a person of privilege in this manner. Because even though I’m a Black Woman living in America, I can easily pull the privilege of the “Black Foreigner Card” when I need to and this is just the type of situation I could use that ‘card’ in.

Ah, the ‘Foreign Black Person Card’ – all the blackness without any of the white guilt – the perfectly ideal ‘black friend’! ;D  (However, its flipped in Europe, so I hear, so there is that as well. ;D)

I’ve seen this “Foreign Black Card” work in action at one of my old work places. That old boss lady who was non-black would piss and moan about ‘how ‘ghetto’ these black people are’ who come into her medical building and what ‘troublemakers’ there were. She said this freely and repeatedly until one day  I finally had the nerve to say to her, “Hey, I’m black and not ghetto,  so lay off my people!”  But she actually had the GALL to look at me seriously and with a straight face say, “You’re not Black, Ladyhumor, you’re Jamaican. Your people are different.”

I was like: O_o?

I had no clue what to say to her in my shook, but something like ‘Are you blind? Do you NOT see my milk cocoa skin, woman?’ did come to mind. SMH.

However,  this seems to be growing sentiment in the USA, unfortunately. And I’m sorry to say this, but the foreign black people and their future generations (from Africa, Caribbean, and Central/South America) are taking and using the spots/opportunities of American Black folks in leaps and bounds without nayer a care. And I get the feeling that a lot of black folks born in the US are just happy to see ‘a black face in a high place’ without realizing that face may not be for you but for their ‘own’.

I’ve seen Nigerians  cut out American Blacks in business deals like it was a Tuesday special, and the American Black person was like “But aren’t we the same, brother?” And the Nigerians were like “Hell Naw, son. Who are you to me? I have no blood to you!”

My parents came to this country in the 80s but because I was born here and had the ‘melanin needed’, I got access to all the grants, scholarships, and loans that should have only been intended for “American Black People” only. However, I ‘qualified’ and because of that I was able to complete my 4-year undergraduate degree with only $9,000 on the balance when I walked down that graduating aisle.

Therefore, what could very well happened in the future, if the American Black Community doesn’t shape up and save itself, is that there will be a great divide between foreign and native blacks. And like the Asian community, the foreign blacks will because ‘model minorities’ to the native blacks further demise.

@Lady Humor

I like the name because what you’re saying is hogwash. When you take a kernel of truth and wrap it around layers of lies it becomes propaganda. I love how “other blacks (non-AA)” are quick to jump on the bandwagon with the same prejudiced ideas of blacks that the white man has said about them for ages. Are there problems? Yes. But there’s problems with a lot of people. I get tired of people trying to lump every black as ghetto, ignorant, buffoonish, and irresponsible. On the contrary there are plenty of black people doing just fine. Are they the ones getting positive press? Nope. Instead of running like rats and jumping ship, black people need to circle the wagons and shun what non-AA’s say.

If you lived it then talk about it. I love how they’re quick to take advantage of what our ancestors endured and fought for while castigating their descendants as though we’re not smart enough to see it. Unfortunately most AA’s don’t view them as the enemy which is doing a terrible disservice to themselves. Why not benefit from what AA people fought for while being able to distance themselves and garner the sympathy of whites (help assuage their white guilt) by showing their otherness? After all, what have non-AA’s done to help out? Do they help politically, socially, financially, economically to help improve the conditions of the black community or just operate like opportunistic parasites every chance they get? Every chance they get to crap on AA’s they take full advantage.

Jamaicans, Haitians, Africans and etc. they’re all the same in the end. Just collective groups of Africans doing their hardest to supplant AA’s. Unfortunately they’ve yet to factor in the real white American mentality. Haitians talk bad about us, but when the hurricane came “Why don’t you AAs help us”? If the rest of the island blacks were so good, e.g. why is Jamaica a financial wreck? Africans can barely rise above their tribalism to operate on a nationalistic identity (N/S Nigeria, tribal, Islam/Christianity). The AU is a joke letting Europeans destroy a member of their Union (Libya) and genocide blacks while they twiddle their thumbs. Arabs took the north, and have their eyes on taking more land. The Chinese have been talking about importing 300 million to the continent. Europeans still have their boot heels on the Africans. The U.S. with Africom so they can fight each other to death. Corporations buying huge swathes of land in Africa. Africa is still America’s plantation. After all, how many millions of Africans have been killed by other Africans (Rwanda, Sudan, Congo…the list goes on).

So yes there are issues, but in the end, if you’re black there’s no where to run. Once you run, you staying running…that’s how it goes. Don’t mistake immigration by Africans or those caught in the diaspora any different than the Asian immigration. Most are culturally middle class like millions of blacks. They aren’t letting them come over who lived in huts or have plates in their mouth. They excel true (Africans) but when you have high quality immigration that is to be expected. AAs could outshine them any day of the week.

Black people need to stop suffering from the racism of low expectations is all. After all, what other group of blacks in the world have accomplished what we have? ZERO. We’re still best of breed bar none. Once AAs repair the damage incurred for the last 40 years we’ll be tuned up running on all cylinders. It’s been slow but black people are re-awakening.

Bill O’Reilly hasn’t said anything black people haven’t been saying for decades. But it’s not the middle class or wealthy blacks, it’s those who are poor to be honest. I can’t be the only black here who was raised in a solid middle class, 2 family household with parents still married (40+ years). It’s the culture plain and simple. Things like out of wedlock birth, prison and not graduating from college is frowned upon. So the distinction has to be made. All the people in my family (90%+) are married, kids graduated college, grown up married also and etc. But I guess it’s whether you’re old school black (church all the time, “yes sir, yes ma’am”, respect your elders, family) or the blacks raised as socialized under welfare, feminism, liberalism, secularism, no religion, rap music, abortion and the rest.

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