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Naija kids and Black American kids are not the same. Can we say it out loud?
Go into any comment section where Nigerians and Black Americans are talking and wait. Somebody says Africans sold their own people. Somebody replies that Black Americans do not know where they are from. Forty replies later, two groups of Black people who have never met are insulting each other over a history neither of them chose.
Two different catastrophes made two different peoples. One wound is disconnection - stolen, stripped of name and language, from a place that will not say which place. The other is extraction - colonised in place, kept the language and the land, lost the control.
That produces different instincts. Pretending otherwise is part of why the fights keep happening.
So is naming the difference honest and useful? Or does talking about it just feed a division that people with worse intentions are happy to widen?
Naija, diaspora, second gen, Black American - everybody welcome. Keep it honest, keep it respectful.
