Solidarity seems to be a hard concept to grasp, especially when you have geographical, ethnic and institutional boundaries preventing you from truly understanding the plight of people from different demography. We find ourselves squabbling over petty differences like skin color, nationality, and religion.
What comes to mind when you think the cultural and racial difference is of course the dynamics between the black and white race. Especially if you consider all that is going on right now. But as seen on Twitter today, we were given yet another glimpse of the tension that exists within the black community.
https://twitter.com/chemicalbrodar/status/1275409013988036610
Black Americans fighting racism but discriminating Africans <<<
— Morris Baker (@MorrisBaker_) June 23, 2020
Whether African-American or African, our different realities still hinder us from true integration. As black people, we find ourselves facing discrimination from all angles.
Whites are racist to African Americans.
African Americans are racist to Africans.
Africans are xenophobic towards each other.
Nigerians are tribalists. https://t.co/9yi52Cwu9Y— Ichie Bullion (@principe_viii) June 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/official_stieve/status/1275432892995436550?s=20
I remember when an African American said I used the money that the UN sent for food and malaria medications for weaves and makeup 😂😂😂.
— Lisa (@Ada0lisa) June 23, 2020
Even within the same region, you can still find these disparities. The slightest differences cause unnecessary feuds and the black race suffers the most from this. This is common place among the different tribes in Nigeria, and/or with the different religions practiced in Nigeria. And even within the same religion, there are denominations that divide us even further.
There always seems to be a reason why people just can’t get along and these reasons are clogs in the wheel of progress, here in Africa and all other parts of the world.
On Twitter today, an African-American woman made an insensitive remark on the state of technology in Africa, specifically the WiFi.
https://twitter.com/itsmirfreestyle/status/1275240390459875330
Since then, Africans have gone on a tirade, stressing that in spite of using our voices to join the African-American struggles and protests against discrimination in our own way, it is a sad development that ‘Black Americans’ don’t care about Africans.
https://twitter.com/mrmanheree/status/1275423353474617348
https://twitter.com/ObongRoviel/status/1275411878953582594
Africans are niggers to black Americans
— 🌹 (@TheWorkPlaceLTD) June 23, 2020
Conversations in the trend got so heated that a number of insensitive tweets were put out, degrading the death and brutality of African-Americans at the hands of racist policemen.
Black Americans look down on Africans because they’ve got unlimited WiFi and get to play golf when they’re old. But here in Africa we only kneel when praying to our God, can’t say the same about them though.
— DOZIE (@Laxix6) June 23, 2020
Omo if anyone carries cardboard in the name of protesting for George Floyd in this Lagos I really hope our police beats up every single one of you, since you don’t have sense. Ode.
— 𝒴𝓋𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒 𝓢𝓷𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓻 𝓹𝓵𝓾𝓰👟😌 (@_E_vonn) May 31, 2020
