In general, real Africans cannot stand American Blacks. I have friends who came here from Nigeria who want nothing to do with them. They think they are lazy and spoiled.
The feeling is often mutual. I once had a secretary who would complain to me about native Africans. She felt that they had a “better than the rest of us” attitude toward American blacks.
It was an enlightening relationship.
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I saw this first hand while overseas. A buddy and I were in port and hit a laid back bar when on liberty. We ended up drinking with a couple Africans who were merchants and having a generally good time. A couple black dudes from my platoon came into the place a few hours later (good dudes BTW) and came up to our table to join us. The Africans thanked my buddy and I for a good time and good conversation and got up to leave almost immediately. When I said “stay a while a longer”, one of them pointed back and forth to my black platoon-mates and said “Not with these two.” and just left.
My eyes were opened wide that day.
One of the black people engaged me in conversation, which was a bit unusual, and then I noticed that he had an accent, which sounded vaguely to me like somebody from the Caribbean.
I asked him where he was from, and he told me he was from Cameroon, and we continued talking for several minutes after that, until we concluded our business.
Then it dawned on me... this highly articulate genuine African chose me for a conversation, not the American blacks he was in line with.