That’s one of the great ironies of the fetishization of African heritage by leftist American black activists. If they were dropped in Africa, the locals would find them to be as strange and foreign as the whitest of white Europeans. They have nothing, other than complexion, in common with them.
Also, the “systemic racism” lie is demolished by the fact that recent African immigrants to the U.S. are far more successful and prosperous, while far less likely to be involved in crime, than are native “African-Americans.” So what happened? Did the “evil racists” that the left believes lurk behind every tree, somehow forget to discriminate against African immigrants? Even more puzzling is the fact that many immigrants have darker skin than most native blacks, while also exhibiting accents since English is usually not their first language. Those two additional factors should cause the “racist system” to discriminate doubly hard against these folks, yet it obviously doesn’t. Hmm…
You’re exactly correct. Most African immigrants I’ve known are very glad to be here and grateful for the opportunities.
(And their English is often better than that of many native-born Americans.)