I was in a restaurant listening to the two black ladies behind me. One had just returned from “finding her roots” in Africa. She said, (Approximately) that she had never felt more uncomfortable and hated. The blacks in Africa can tell what tribe you are from by the way you look and practically all the people from that tribe looked alike. They hate anybody not from their tribe and they especially hated blacks from America. She said she would never go back there.
So, all blacks have a shared history...sure.
I am glad she had this experience because you could hear how it had changed her view of being an American.
Back around the time that South Africa was ending apartheid, I read a book on the South African military. One of the things that struck me was an anecdote about the fighting in Southwest Africa (now Namibia). Defectors from the SWAPO guerrillas would come into SADF camps to surrender--and complain about the racism and discrimination on the insurgent side.
When I read an autobiography of Nelson Mandela, I was struck by the fact that the ANC's guerrilla wing, the "Spear of the Nation," was rendered in the Xhosa language. Mandela was a Xhosa.
[And, if I remember correctly, the Xhosa immigrated into South Africa after the Boers colonized it. So, who has the better claim on the land?]
Ran into two brothers from Nigeria several years back that had immigrated to the U.S. They had nothing good to say about about most of the American blacks that they worked with; calling them lazy. This was in Baltimore, so the environment there speaks for itself.
I've got news for that lady -- many groups from around the world, black, white, or in-between, are not particular fond of most black Americans.