Ransford James | Why Black Americans Are Disliked By Some Africans & Afro-Caribbeans | Malcolm X

Like most self-respecting people across the world, I harbor anti-America sentiments, and it is not without reason. Their destructive foreign policies, military invasions, and interference in the affairs of other sovereign states, including Kenya, my beloved country, top the list of reasons.

On the surface, the fact that black Americans are, in fact, Americans makes them guilty by association, regardless of their perceived or imagined struggles in their country.

Ransford James eloquently stated that black Americans suffer from an America-centric ego that propels the perspective that America is the world.

Cultural imperialism is the main factor that contributes to the development of an America-centric ego among Americans, including black Americans.

Cultural imperialism refers to the dominance of one culture over others through the dissemination and promotion of its cultural products, values, and beliefs. This can occur through various means, including media, entertainment, technology, military, and economic influence. Americanization is considered a form of cultural imperialism, where American cultural products, such as movies, music, fashion, and even political ideologies, are promoted globally, leading to their widespread adoption.

In the case of black Americans, Americanization has both positive and negative implications. On one hand, it has contributed to the dissemination and recognition of black American art, literature, scientists, inventors and cultural contributions, which have had a significant impact worldwide. Black American cultural exports, such as jazz, blues, and hip-hop, have influenced and inspired artists and individuals from diverse backgrounds globally. And of course, notable figures like the combative Malcolm X, who epitomized self-respect better than the pacifist Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm's "By any means necessary" speech resonates to date with all those whose people were enslaved or whose lands were stolen and colonized.

Unfortunately, Americanization has been co-opted into black American victimhood hegemony, where the black American lived experience in America is elevated above other black experiences worldwide. Black Americans are the self-proclaimed undisputed champions of Oppression Olympics, otherwise called Victim Olympics. Incited by white American liberals and other nefarious individuals and interest groups exploiting racial issues for personal gain (i.e., race grifters), some black Americans have turned the pursuit of justice into a competition for who has suffered the most oppression, in a futile attempt to overshadow the lived experiences of Native Americans, Africans, Afro-Latinos, Afro-Caribbeans, Jews, Arabs, and Asians. They forget that there are both black and non-black people inside and outside America who have endured just as much marginalization, if not more.

Curiously, Native Americans, Africans, Afro-Latinos, Afro-Caribbeans, Jews, Arabs, and Asians are thriving within and without America yet black Americans seem to be the only historically marginalized group that's stuck in victimhood mentality, never mind they gave us the great Malcolm X, a man who had clearly emancipated himself from mental slavery.

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