RACISM
How We Treat Black Immigrants in America Should Matter
An essay highlighting the injustices Black immigrants experience
One in every ten Black people in America is an immigrant, and that rate is expected to increase over the next few decades. Thanks to this new wave of Black African migration, the story of Black people in America is evolving like a split pea. On one end, you have Black Americans whose ancestors were forced to endure generations of slavery, and Jim Crow and, as a result, have spent over a hundred years fighting for racial equity. And on the other side, you have Black immigrants who often come to America in search of a better life, typically brought about by sociopolitical or financial hardship in their homelands or through an entrepreneurial spirit. As a result, the Black diaspora has become more culturally diverse and potentially more powerful as long as Black immigrants and Black Americans remember they’re two sides of the same split pea.
Racism is part of our local forecast in America but is also a global phenomenon. The South American apartheid system, which lasted from 1948 to 1994, is an example of how African people have been segregated, systematically abused, and diminished by White colonial powers outside America’s chattel slavery system. Sadly, the formal dissolution of the…
