My experience at an Ethiopian restaurant
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What are some of your experiences?
Had multiple instances of calling a cab and having an east African show up, see some white people further up the road and speed off past us to pick them up. White couple had to hail a cab for us and we had to sneak in on a shared fare. Cabbie was clearly pissed and didn't say a word to us while chatting up the white woman.
Ended up losing a parking ticket while visiting my mom in the hospital, punk ass attendant had the nerve to insinuate I stole the car and that's why I didn't have a ticket.
Went to an Ethiopian restaurant, somehow they were put of an item we ordered yet an Asian couple that ordered after us somehow obtained the item.
I never had a problem with Ethiopian business owners in Atl, Houston, or NJ. To be honest by and far most of the Ethiopians I have met have been very cool.
Actually I've never had a problem with any foreign Black business owners come to think of it. The only ones I have gotten an attitude from were the 'regular' foreign Black folks when I was going out. They are instantly recognizable as foreign to me before they even speak because of the way they dress. None of them dress like Black Americans, and if there is ever any doubt, the ones that have that distrustful look on their face may as well be walking around with a sign that says 'I'm not from here."
It's irritating and frankly unnecessary for them to be like that. The most ridiculous thing about it, is it really doesn't take much for them to open up. Every so often I'll run into a defensive Nigerian, and I'll ask them "where are you from?" They reluctant say Nigeria, and I'll ask them if they are from Lagos or Kano. They get a surprised look on their face, ask me if I've been to Nigeria, and the hostility disappears.
Black folks from Francophone countries are a prime example. Some of them are cool, others will side-eye the hell out of you...until you speak French to them. Then their faces will light up and they are all smiles. The old folks are the worst offenders, because after you start speaking French they are super warm and friendly, when literally 10 seconds earlier they were ice cold.
I don't like that. Even if though I understand the factors involved, people deserve the benefit of the doubt. To be fair, It's not like the foreign Blacks are the only offenders either, because sometimes Black Americans are unnecessarily rude to foreign Blacks. People don't even understand that they make things harder for themselves by being petty.
Actually I've never had a problem with any foreign Black business owners come to think of it. The only ones I have gotten an attitude from were the 'regular' foreign Black folks when I was going out. They are instantly recognizable as foreign to me before they even speak because of the way they dress. None of them dress like Black Americans, and if there is ever any doubt, the ones that have that distrustful look on their face may as well be walking around with a sign that says 'I'm not from here."
It's irritating and frankly unnecessary for them to be like that. The most ridiculous thing about it, is it really doesn't take much for them to open up. Every so often I'll run into a defensive Nigerian, and I'll ask them "where are you from?" They reluctant say Nigeria, and I'll ask them if they are from Lagos or Kano. They get a surprised look on their face, ask me if I've been to Nigeria, and the hostility disappears.
Black folks from Francophone countries are a prime example. Some of them are cool, others will side-eye the hell out of you...until you speak French to them. Then their faces will light up and they are all smiles. The old folks are the worst offenders, because after you start speaking French they are super warm and friendly, when literally 10 seconds earlier they were ice cold.
I don't like that. Even if though I understand the factors involved, people deserve the benefit of the doubt. To be fair, It's not like the foreign Blacks are the only offenders either, because sometimes Black Americans are unnecessarily rude to foreign Blacks. People don't even understand that they make things harder for themselves by being petty.
Rice'N Beckford
**King of ADOS**
I wouldn’t paint most East Africans with the same brush. Yeah every community hastypes
some of us just don’t feel comfortable around foreigners, specially the older generation... black, white, yellow it don’t make a difference. We come from family orientated cultures, there is always an us and them mentality benethe the surface, even within our own nations. That can be misinterpreted as racism to someone who doesn’t understand the culture, but we are just weary of outsiders, people with different languages, religions and customs... colour don’t make much of a diffence in this case..
Black is black, we all just need to come together and kick that old bullshyt to the side.
Sounds good but nah. They especially are weary on darker colored foreigners but not pale ones
Rice'N Beckford
**King of ADOS**
LoStranger
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I've actually had more issues with West African (Nigerians in particular) then I have ever had with any East African in real life. Now if were talking online that's a completely different story....
Homey the clown
Homey don't play that
Since when are African Americans passive? African Americans are the first ones to tell you off and cuss you out if they feel like they're being disrespected.Personally I wouldn't cuss someone out but I would sure tell them off.I don't play that.
I get shade from east African cab drivers and I'm east African lol.
Sounds good but nah. They especially are weary on darker colored foreigners but not pale ones
Would it be a lie to say that majority of black people on average no matter where they are from treat each other with less hospitality than "others" at our places of business. We reserve smiling for others and courtesies we don't extend our own sometimes.
It's easy for Op to chalk it down to ethnicity however these experiences carry past those lines. We have had plenty of discussions on here about this. We don't treat each other very warmly.
Damn that's fukked up. I can't say that's been my experience though. I've been to these two Ethiopian restaurants not too far from my house many times over the past couple of years and they've been super friendly/nice to me. The first one always greeted me and was happy to see me patronize and buy their food and she told me she was happy to see another black person buying vegan ethiopian food. The Ethiopian lady even let me get free food and pay for it another time once. This was in a NJ ethiopian store. Then there's another one down the street from that store that also gave me warm vibes too. One time I went in there and the cashier in there, this cute dark skin ethiopian chick was asking me if I'm from Haiti because she saw my last name and then she was telling me how she knew someone in HS with that name and thought it was him yadda yadda. Another older woman once asked me if I was Ethiopian strangely enough because she said I looked a little(strange because I have long dreads). Idk, I haven't met much ethiopians outside of these establishments but they were cool to me 
I've actually had more issues with West African (Nigerians in particular) then I have ever had with any East African in real life. Now if were talking online that's a completely different story....
In my experience a lot of online East Africans are cowardly, racist, ignorant, insecure, and don't even know their own history for their respective countries. I've seen them quote Wikipedia and other sites without even understanding that the information was false. Literally painting themselves in a negative light without even understanding it, and being proud of it. The online East Africans that take shots at African Americans and other members of the diaspora are all so disturbingly effeminate in the way they try to insult people.
The offline ones have all been regular guys. So it's just universal that people get behind the computer screen and let their inner coward flow.
I've heard about how they do nikkas in their cab industry. Lemme try and post The Read podcast wheee they did a whole segment about how some Somali(?) dudes had this group of black people wait in the rain for a ride multiple times cause white people kept showing up at their pickup location
With how Ethiopian-Israelis are treated shame on him 
@Poitier is this true?
Dekalb County is home to refugee cities so you have a large population of Ethios, Somalis, and Sudanese.
East Africans are doing well in nightlife and transportation out here.
I wouldn’t say they’re are hostile but more so stand offish and suspicious of AAs. It’s gotten better over the past decades than whenever I first moved to Clarkston (refugee city).
The young kids are basically nikkas.
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Quiet Magician
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yeeaaah....I'm seeing a pattern here with you breh
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