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"We don't get along", "they don't like us", "they hate us", "they think they're better than us", I get a headache each time I hear it.
The oft cited narrative says that there is warfare between African and Black Americans? We're going to talk about it.
This episode came about several weeks back when I was watching an interview on Vlad TV where Vlad was interviewing comedian Godfrey C. Danchimah aka Godfrey and the topic of the relations between African and Black Americans was broached, and it included Rick "Freeway Ricky" Ross the former drug leader, not the rapper. I wasn’t happy with most of the discussion, much of which I’ve heard before, and it circled around the refrain, “Africans this, Africans that.” Africans aren’t a monolith, Black-Americans aren’t a monolith, and it was a disappointment to hear Godfrey, a brother I highly respect (his impressions of Denzel Washington are a riot!), lump a continent of 1 billion plus into one envelope. Godfrey did say it was from his point of view, so I'm not going to argue against that; I’m going to talk about it from my point of view.
