TacoMac
Well-Known Member
According to a good friend of mine who is Nigerian, it's a bit more than that.well, it could be because the color of a persons skin has very little to do with their personality.
American "blacks" are Americans...they just happen to have more melanin than some others. why would that make them fundamentally different than any other person that lives in America? maybe African black people just don't like Americans, but they just focus on the American blacks for some reason? some expectation of kinship or similarity that isn't there, for cultural reasons?
It has a lot to do with the fact that they claim their African ancestry loudly, yet they butcher the history of it (what little if any they know) and come off as posers. For instance, most African American names have nothing to do with any African nation or history, yet they (African Americans) claim that they do.
The way they dress is also an issue. According to my friend, he assumes most African Americans got their "African dress code" from watching old 1970's Clint Eastwood movies.
Then there's the fact that the vast majority of African Americans can't even name 3 nations in Africa, or tell you anything about the continent at all, so their interest in the actual culture they claim to be from is entirely made up. It doesn't exist anywhere on the continent of Africa.
So, in a way (and I admit this is sort of crude) real African's dislike African Americans because they see them as posers - people who pretend to be something that they're not only not, but have absolutely no knowledge of at all.
I think the world of my friend. He's a police officer at a major university down town. I helped him with all his INS paperwork back in the day when he brought his wife over. They are in many ways completely different people from the typical African American you meet.