A Nigerian buddy of mine married a US black woman. Man did he have a rough time - coming to work in fits of rage. Ended up in divorce. He then went back to the old country, got a wife, brought her over, and he’s been happy ever since.
From the article:
“Given her milk-chocolate complexion, green eyes and curly hair, Cecelia worried that a biracial baby might come out looking white. Cecelia wanted chocolate babies not just so they would stay connected to black culture, but for another reason as well: So that no one would ever question whether they were hers. With biracial children, she feared that she might be mistaken for the nanny. Many black women share her anxiety about having a biracial child.”
Holy cow.
Many American blacks seem to have a curious combination of envy and admiration for black Africans, at least the ones that come to the US for school or work. It’s as if American blacks tacitly regard the slavery experience as diminishing themselves in some way. Black Africans won independence from colonialism, but even under colonialism they never experienced the particularly harsh form of slavery suffered by blacks in the US South.
There really isn’t an analog among other ethnic groups. For example, most Slavs were enslaved just a few generations before slavery ended in the US. In fact, the word “slave” comes from the ethnic descriptor “Slav”. And yet I have never read a modern Slavic writer who still harbors resentments over the Slavic diaspora and enslavement.
The same with Irish writers in the US...
Turned out better for him than for Eddie Murphy......
"Eddie! "Eddie! "I want to talk to yooooooooooo!"
"What's your problem, baby?"
"I don't like the way you treat me, Eddie. You treat me like animal.
"You was butt naked on a zebra last month."
"I don't care, Eddie. I am American woman now. I want what's coming to me.
"Eddie, what have you done for me lately?"
"I want you to be happy. Well, what you want?"
"Half!"