Dirty little secret: Africans HATE American blacks. Even British blacks are far more sophisticated than American blacks.
“Me and other drivers talk, and we all have the same experience,” he said.
He told me of a specific example where he picked up an American black man in Manhattan and took him up to Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. “He ran away without paying, and what am I supposed to do? I can’t chase him,” he said.
He wrote it off as lost income but promised himself not to pick up any more American blacks.
true saw it in college
The same situation occurred in the black infantry units during the Civil War. The enlisted men in regiments such as the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry, which were made up of mostly free-born men, looked down their noses at the U.S.C.T. units which consisted mostly of contraband blacks.
I've known and worked with several Africans....to a man (and woman), they LOATHED American blacks, even calling them the "N" word (which was especially funny coming from a Nigerian).
A mideastern cabbie once said to me, as he tapped the plexiglass and metal divider between the front seat and the back: "This is for The Blacks. No, really. That's the only reason we have it is for The Blacks."
Bigger dirty little secret: American black cab drivers don't like picking up American black passengers.
African blacks and immigrants in general (barring refugees and illegal latinos), are educated and represent upper-classes in their respective societies. They could afford plane tickets, for example, and enough money to switch continents; to them, especially to African black immigrants, American blacks represent slaves who just have not made any progress in terms of education and wealth. Just like rich and upper/middle-class whites are embarrassed of poor whites, the well-off immigrants look down upon and fear poor native blacks.