Think about it. Millions of blacks moving to cities in the North and West due to economic downturn and lynchings/pogroms (refugee crisis). Sending money back South (remittances). Living in homes with multiple people. Whites complaining about migrants stealing jobs that they would never work themselves. Physical and educational improvements in life comes with said migrations. And, finally a large network of blacks is created from state to state (intranational diaspora). Idk about you but it sounds like the classic American immigrant story just with a twist.
Was the Great Migration the closest thing to an immigrant story AA's have?
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Basically a bunch of people from John Hope Franklin to Thomas Sowell have said the same thing. If we had been a normal American people we would probably not be trapped in decaying inner city hoods but having our own ethnic markets and been integrated in the suburbs. But this is America sadly and we don't always get a happily ever after.
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Technically not a immigrant story but yes they migrated up north for opportunity.
Also there was a false sense of thinking that they were leaving the “racist” south.
Why the smiley? Just food for thought.
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How can you compare a people who were born here, who moved to other states, to people who came here illegally, from a whole other country?
@IllmaticDelta @xoxodede @#Championships @K.O.N.Y Is this dude serious,mane?
Nobody mentioned illegal immigrants, mateHow can you compare a people who were born here, who moved to other states, to people who came here illegally, from a whole other country?
@IllmaticDelta @xoxodede @#Championships @K.O.N.Y Is this dude serious,mane?
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gettin real sick of you nikkas
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lolHow can you compare a people who were born here, who moved to other states, to people who came here illegally, from a whole other country?
@IllmaticDelta @xoxodede @#Championships @K.O.N.Y Is this dude serious,mane?
I dapped breh because i think i get what hes trying to say
But if not than -
I just like ethnography, it's no disrespect to ADOSlol
I dapped breh because i think i get what hes trying to say
But if not than -
im·mi·grant
/ˈiməɡrənt/
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noun: immigrant; plural noun: immigrants
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
A bunch of Russians volunteeringly moving from Siberia to Moscow are NOT immigrants even if its half-way around the world!
The Deep South and the Western part of the US are not two separate countries
There is no comparison
/ˈiməɡrənt/
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noun
noun: immigrant; plural noun: immigrants
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
A bunch of Russians volunteeringly moving from Siberia to Moscow are NOT immigrants even if its half-way around the world!
The Deep South and the Western part of the US are not two separate countries
There is no comparison
Similarities to immigration not actual immigration. The TLR really can't read at all.im·mi·grant
/ˈiməɡrənt/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: immigrant; plural noun: immigrants
a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
A bunch of Russians volunteeringly moving from Siberia to Moscow are NOT immigrants even if its half-way around the world!
The Deep South and the Western part of the US are not two separate countries
There is no comparison
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