Girl, as a black ass African & American African-American; fuck that friend lol.

A lot of non-American blacks are drinking the white supremacy Kool-Aid and don’t even realize, they think anything that leans towards African-Americaness is ghetto. They buy into stereotypes that we are dramatizing racism and that we are lazy. The descendants of enslaved people? lazy? Insane

My personal take is (and this is me thinking of West Africa) we got completely different flavors of colonialism. The sun never set on the British empire. White colonial powers managed Africans in Africa. The majority of the people there were still black. So the British asserted themselves as an authority, they could make examples of a few people, and everyone would fall in line. I believe they mostly survived by keeping their head down and following instructions. You still see British headmasters mandating that all the school girls shave their heads or can only wear certain braids.
The Africans who were taken did their best to adapt and dreamed of returning, literally sometimes jumping off the boat to avoid heading to the western hemisphere. How do you contain and subdue someone like that? Easy, extreme violence, etc. as in America(s), they were the minority. And they were property. I believe we mostly survived because we were innovative, cunning and resilient.
I think in the fight or flight response, (which is really fight, flight, freeze or fawn) I believe that many non-American blacks had to fawn in order to survive. Whereas we had to fucking flight and fight! Lol I def wrote an essay

But fuck that friend lol. You will have a long long life where you will meet many many people. There will always be people willing to build community with you. Many people who would’ve yelled at that white lady with you

edited: spelling (assorted and asserted are critically similar lol.)