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RCNAL said:

I had a convo with a foreign brotha once about that 'I didn't know about racism when I came to America' thing because he grew up in a 'black country'. He was also Moslem. I said 'You grew up in a Moslem area your whole life where Moslems run everything but you knew about how Moslems were treated in non Moslem countries and didn't like it though?'

It's not an excuse. Stop hiding behind that. It's all cap.

Black Immigrants On How The Racial Reckoning Of 2020 Shifted Their Perspective On Black Identity

Though America was built on the forced labor of millions of people who were ripped from their homes and brought to the then-foreign land to make it something great, the immigrant experience is a challenging one in the U.S., particularly for immigrants of color. When my parents moved stateside...

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RCNAL said:

Some people in other countries. I've met more than a few Africans on the continent who are down. Tariq has said as much in his travels on the continent.
So, they know. Same in the Caribbean who should know better having a history of slavery then colonization.
I think people choose not to and use 'we didn't grow up with blah blah blah' as an excuse.

The plight of Blacks in America is well known. White Europeans have asked is it as bad as they heard. Asians as well. People know, for the most part.

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Sapphire said:

I feel like we need to value individual experiences but we can't be delusional about it. Both my parents immigrated to the US. My father is Jamaican, my mother is Italian. Both faced discrimination in different areas but they learned quick on who they could trust and who they couldn't. I think we could all benefit from travel and seeing how other cultures live and react to our presence. It is an eye opening experience.

People in other nations think all black Americans are what they see on TV, in movies and shows, in music videos and sports. That is a small number of people that don't represent all of us.

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educatedman23 said:

Yes because people will see that some assumptions are not true

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