Somehow nearly all of the immigrant coalitions and civil rights groups in the 60s credited the AA Civil Rights movement AND the Black Power movement for being their blueprint and literally partnered with the AA movement in a lot of cases, and yet you frame the AA movement as only affecting/benefitting AAs.
Of course the
African American Civil Rights movement was marching about African American issues

. The outcomes of that movement, however, affected all black people in the United States and future black immigrants simply by virtue of skin color.
Where you seem to get it fukked up is your idea that the ebbs/flows and exclusionary practices of American immigration politics = that African immigrants have no advantages over descendants of slavery when coming into America. Refugees have it hard here, sure,
https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-global-african-immigrants-explainer-20180112-story.html] but
they only account for 22% of all African immigrants[/url]. the other 78% are people who immigrated here of their own free will with no more expedient factors than any other immigrant group. All willful immigrants have advantage
s over AAs when they come to this country:
1) they have their own nation to go back to or to send their children back to when shyt gets rough. A lot of the 1st/ 2nd gen Nigerians and Ethiopian Americans I personally know were sent back home during a big chunk of their adolescence so that it’s easier for them to tap into those networks as an adult AND for them to avoid coming of age in shytty American neighborhoods and schools.
2) They do not have mass incarceration running through their family tree
3) with the exception of Caribbean/Western Hemisphere black immigrants, they do not share the legacy of enslavement.
Those three factors alone are huge. None of the above is the fault of said immigrants but the above constitutes a profound difference in how they experience America vs. descendants of slavery.
Refugees of any race are a different story whether it’s Somalians in Milwaukee and Minnesota, Laotians/Cambodians in central CA, Salvadorians in LA, etc. Refugee communities tend to have some of the same issues plaguing poor AA communities including high dropout rates, high incarceration rates, etc. Also, their ability to tap into networks back home is much more limited for obvious reasons. The US govt funnels refugees into existing low-income communities - typically into predominantly AA low income communities as opposed to white ones - and does little to nothing to facilitate their integration into US society. Sometimes they get along w/ the locals and sometimes the govt creates a racial/ethnic tinderbox.
However, the vast majority of African immigrants do not come into this country under those circumstances. A lot of them come in already having an education, already being businessmen and already
having a support network whether it’s a company/school sponsoring their visa or the family/community they have in the US that’s already created a foundation. And, they come into the US “knowing” that native blacks are more or less at the bottom. What they don’t know is that native blacks are at the bottom because they’ve been redlined, cheated, murdered, displaced, eminent domained, outsourced, deunionized, terrorized and incarcerated out of the middle.