When Caribbean Immigrants Become Black

[Sir X]

In Solidarity: When Caribbean Immigrants Become Black
BY VICTORIA BROWN
I listened with fascination as my Jamaican immigrant student enumerated the ways West Indians were superior to African Americans.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/s...-black-n308686

[Islandman]

If I could meet this lady I would give her a hug. I can't tell you how much it ****es me off when Afro-Caribbean people go out of their way to make those types of distinctions, both privately and publicly.

First of all most times they are sterotyping African Americans to be all of the urban-hood variety, presumably because those are the ones they meet in the big immigrant cities. Suppose one was to sterotype Jamaican behaviour based on what happens in Tivarli or Jungle?

Secondly it plays right into the old house negro/field negro game. Every time someone has come to me with that "you aren't really black" (Translation: you aren't really a ******) crap I set them straight....faaass!

Time we stop that nonsense. It is a backward as when African-Americans say black and brown immigrants are "taking their jobs".

[Sir X]

Reality bites for the 2nd generation, then it hits them.