Why Africans and African-Americans Don’t Get Along
“Black people are cursed with petty differences” — Marcus Garvey
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6 min readJul 18, 2023
It seems to be a ‘crabs in a bucket’ mentality.
Which really pisses me off because we’re inherently the same. Not in a monolithic sense, but due to the fact that we have many things in common.
As an African living in North America, I’m astonished and disheartened by the animosity exhibited in the black diaspora.
The predominant population of Black Americans are descendants of Africans. But over time, the two communities have slowly severed any meaningful connections to the point that we no longer recognize each other.
Yet we as the melanated-skin community don’t seem to want to rebuild it in any way, shape or form.
Instead, we divide ourselves even further.
To understand the friction between us, we need to investigate the culprits behind it.
