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My Story: Why Nigerian Immigrants Experience Racism Differently From Other Blacks In the US
They had a leg up with tribalism.
As a Nigerian, I experienced racism in my country. Oh! Not racism but her identical twin sister, tribalism. For example, in college, a professor banned me from speaking my language with my classmate but allowed students from his tribe to speak their language freely.
Racism and tribalism are twin sisters raised in the same home and community. Tribalism is cruel, lawless, rude, and shameless.
Yes, African-American history from a slavery perspective is shameful and distasteful for everyone involved.
How do Nigerian immigrants handle racism differently from other Blacks in the US?
Next.
Two writers touched on the issue of Africans’ inability to understand racism. One of them instructed Black immigrants never to have an opinion on racism if they came to the US after 1950.
Both writers wrote beautiful essays and shared their opinion on African/Black immigrants in the US, and Nigerian immigrants came up in some of the responses.
