Well with me the main awkwardness would not be on their end it would be on the end of my own family. Like the day I end up with one I do not know how ill deal with the awkwardness or fakeness from my family who some of them were the stereotypical foreign black people who talked down about Black Americans. The people who did this for years from when you were kid they were so selfish that I wonder if any of them rationalized in their head that "Hey maybe one day my son/nephew/cousin will end up with someone who is AA and i should stop my ignorance" . That is what i'm more worried about the most having to put up with the fakeness
You live in Florida right? From what I hear down there Haitians and AA intermarry alot so it could work out.
I live in Atlanta now. Been here since 2005
I move to the US, Miami specifically, in the early to mid 90s. This was when the Haitians weren't welcomed by the African American community in Miami. In high-school people got jumped and beaten daily just for being Haitian. African Americans would pick on you make fun of your accent, your clothes , your food, saying you stink and beat the fukk out of you just because. So back then there was no love lost between African Americans in Haitians in Miami. It wasn't until Wyclef became popular (late 90s) that Haitians kind of caught a break.
I hear about all that love/kumbaya stuff between Haitians and AAs down there
now and it's super weird to me.
Personally, when I lived in Miami I didn't have many African-American friends. There was this one dude named Greg that I befriended from the time I move there and he was cool. Another couple that I was cool with from playing basketball at Cagni Park and maybe one or two co-workers when I worked at TracFone wireless and some of the guys from my Army reserve unit. Some of those guys were just older heads so they weren't into all that ignorant hatred shyt the younger AAs were into. We cool but that wouldn't say we were friends.
As far as the women go, African American women were always cool with me for some reason thus why i've always fukked with them. There was one named Trina in another one named Shante that I was fukking down there that were mad cool but our relationships were strictly almost fukking. It wasn't until I moved to Atlanta that I started having a lot of African-American friends to the point where I can say 70% of my friends now are African Americans. Whereas when i go back to Miami (was there this past weekend) i dont have a single AA friend that i still talk to other than Trina.
As far as my parents go, they never really cared. My mom was welcoming towards both the Haitian and the African American women that I brought home. As a matter of fact this my mom really liked this AA chick named Anissa that i dated when i first moved to Atlanta. Too bad it didnt work out + she eventually skipped town with my money (over $2.5K)
treatment overtly or covertly that much, but I do see it happen to other brothas and sistas in the community and I will not tolerate it.
