This separation of American DOS from the "Black" and "African American" label was bound to happen.
I don't know why non-American DOS believed that they can all of sudden come to the USA and reap the benefits of what American DOS has accomplished while American DOS gets shut out and looked down upon.
American DOS have decided to live and die in the USA. American DOS has decided to not run-away from the challenge of making a life for themselves.
Why should American DOS just accept anything?
Caribbean DOS is trying to reparations from their previous colonial masters, even certain African groups have gotten reparations.
American DOS is not trying to shyt on their effort. We hope they get it so they we can get it. We hope Brazilian DOS defeat the fascists so we can defeat the fascists. The DOS struggle is connected. When each of our countries are strong, we are stronger as a unit.
Africa is full of ethnic tension that has resulted in genocide. American DOS created a hashtag that represented their socio-political interest based on data and facts. Nigerians love being Nigerian, Ghanians love being Ghanain, Jamaicans love being Jamaican but American DOS can not love themselves?
Why American DOS cannot express self-interest?
Foreign Blacks expressed their self-interest by fleeing their homeland and coming to the most advanced and least anti-Black country in the New World. Took advantaged of opportunities here that American DOS created for American DOS. Martin Luther King Jr. did not take a bullet for immigrants. Malcolm X did not take a bullet for immigrants. Black Panther Party did not take bullets for immigrants. Harriet Tubman did not risk her life for immigrants. Frederick Douglass did not send his sons to fight in the American Civil War for immigrants.
Their legacy is for American DOS.
Yes, being a descendant of Africa is hard everywhere, but American DOS did not fight and die in USA so Africans and West Indians can come over here and be doctors and nurses and go to college while American DOS live in poverty and uncertainty. Just like West Africans revolutionaries did not fight Europeans so Chinese and Indians can come over there and be entrepreneurs.
American DOS forefathers and foremothers fought so we didn't have to runaway from the country of our birth, they didn't fight so everybody else can benefit. American DOS is not about to get bullied out of what is owed to them.
