"It's a lie" - Are Black People Oppressed in America? (Black America & the Economic Gap)

[@TheKing75691]

Are we doing anything to solve the issues in Africa or just complaining about what African-Americans think

[@Routetherapy10]

Neither, we would rather have a who had it the worst contest

[@ronsimart]

I like this format bro. we need more of this fam

[@allofshope]

Incoming 🙏🏾

[@jermaineandrews5913]

This guy was born on 3rd base, he states it in the first clip! The high educated & high income African immigrants come from privileged backgrounds. They never tell the story of the middle & poverty class of people in their home country. When you find out the background details of people who have similar opinions (including Trump, Dave Ramsey, Candace Owens, Former Officer Tatum), it will blow your mind. Their perspectives and opinions of the average person are inaccurate. I estimate from my own experience following their advice that 25% of what their progressive ideas actually work for the middle & poverty class.

[@jermaineandrews5913]

but also, i do align with the bottom is to "pull yourself up" but also dont set your hopes & expectations too high. If you consistantly do the best you can (no one can operate at THEIR highest level all the time), then people around do the same, the group/community will rise.

[@allofshope]

Not sure I completely understand your perspective. Please clarify.

[@justinwamsley176]

I'm honestly curious not throwing shade. But at the beginning of the video, you said your father was very well off in Nigeria, and had a comfortable life. Im wanting to ask if you had a good life in Nigeria, why give that up to go to Canada? Or a Western country? I personally have lived all over the world, right now I'm in Morocco. I was born and raised in US. While I'm grateful for being born there, I think people have the idea that Western countries are perfect and great. That's not really always true. Especially in our modern day.

[@TheCastedone]

Because they are colonized minds

[@allofshope]

Great question. We were upper middle class in Nigeria so yea comfortable. Unfortunately economic and political instability means life is always on a razor’s edge. Rampant corruption could wipe you out in a second, especially if you’re not willing to be just as corrupt (which my Dad thankfully wasn’t willing to do - we’re Christian). Also even though we were “comfortable” our economic future wasn’t secure, which He believed a western country would provide. You’re right there is a perception that westernized countries are perfect and while you & I now know they are not, they still provide some basic stability that other countries (like my home country, Nigeria) does not. Finally a western passport does open up a whole world of possibilities. For example, my Canadian passport gives me access to freely travel to (or work in) many more countries without need for a visa, than my Nigerian passport does. Hope that answers your question.

[@justinwamsley176]

@allofshope Yes thank you, I'm glad you answered. Like I said I live in Morocco, which is one of the more politically stable countries in Africa. But thinking about it despite all the problems and hardships I faced in the US (I left America for a reason), the fact I have a US passport is why I'm able to work remotely and live anywhere in the world, and have a comfortable life. I also had the privilege of serving in the US Navy which opened alot of doors that would've been closed.

[@tjoeln39]

Great conversation

[@allofshope]

Appreciate you

[@plazmagaming2182]

Not American, but I lived in a bad neighborhood in toronto. Them Sri Lankan Tamils came as refugees to the hood, but they raised they kids right, now they all making six figures.

[@jermaineandrews5913]

Thanks for sharing, those people came from a progressive cultural background & I bet they were upper class in their home country. Refugee doesnt mean uneducated or poor. No immigrants talks about the reasons for their lower middle & poor class people in their home country. Canada, Cuba, Columbia are in America; We need to start using the term US citizen instead of American.

[@ahmorgan]

Dude sounds bitter. How about he helps his countrymen out and not worry about what's going on in other people's country

[@Routetherapy10]

He's not allowed to, or they'll get shipped back to Nigeria

[@henryscarhead6119]

This need to have more exposure!

[@allofshope]

Appreciate you. Sharing it helps! 🙏🏾 Your view, comment and like also helps.

[@DearWokeChristian]

Let's go!

[@allofshope]

Appreciate you sir!

[@lauranickerson6061]

I really appreciate this conversation and the compassionate and thoughtful way you both presented your viewpoints! 😊 It was super interesting to listen to. Also, as a side note, have either of you by any chance been reading Thomas Sowell? Some of the things you discussed reminded me a lot of what he argues for in his books.

[@BjtheLawyer_]

Take what they say with a grain of salt because neither of these guys are experts or academics. They over trivialize everything & often conflate individualism & generalizations.

[@lauranickerson6061]

@@BjtheLawyer_ Sowell is an academic and has published research which backs up a lot of these things.

[@BjtheLawyer_]

@@lauranickerson6061 I know who Sowell is. What exactly does he support? Because I never really heard Sowell talk about immigration & make that comparison to FBA. It’s ironic how white people such as yourself will selectively latch onto any narrative that shifts the blame away from white supremacy, yet to won’t latch onto a black scholar such as Dr. Claude Anderson. Have you heard of Dr. Claude Anderson?

[@deliojones9527]

Lazy and self-hate 100%

[@LucySplendid]

self hate for sure but not lazy they gave up because everyone confirmed there was no hope.

[@Routetherapy10]

​@@LucySplendidnope they'll make everything we do illegal and make impossible way to get permit and let foreigners do whatever, like the Latinos selling street food

[@DavidSmith-dl8jc]

Respectfully, the points of view expressed in this video don’t fall in line with the daily realities of being ADOS in America, neither do they acknowledge the fact that it was ADOS who made it possible for black immigrants of any ilk to purposefully move to the USA for a better life. The disrespect and cluelessness of these individuals allows people to erroneously believe that it was lack of ingenuity, intelligence, and an entrepreneurial spirit on the part of ADOS that keeps us as the bottom caste in our own country, while simultaneously making it seem that black immigrants (who are only here en massed bc of the immigration and naturalization act of 1965, only started arriving en masse during the 80s and 90s, and only become more successful than ADOS bc of their lack of baggage with yt ppl, which makes them preferable) work harder or are more deserving of a better life than ADOS. There are entirely too many points to go over here in a comment, but I’d be entirely willing to have a conversation with these cats about the data bc this is ridiculous and disrespectful. No one who’s family just got here 1 or 2 generations ago gets to tell the ADOS who built this country and made it possible for other so-called POC to move here and not be Jim Crowed what is and is not owed.

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

Cope

[@DavidSmith-dl8jc]

@@CanadianPhinsFan853 lol are you a Canadian????!!!!! Bruuuuuuhhhhhh!!!!! You DEFINITELY don’t get to talk about ADOS!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Goofy!!!!

[@Starting2See]

Yeah it’s videos like these that make me want to be ADOS only. I try to be open to other blacks but when they do shit like this it’s a slap in the face to all that ADOS continue to go through. We really are all we got. They can sit on their high horses and talk shit about us now but we know what the Bible says about he who is last…

[@DavidSmith-dl8jc]

@@Starting2See speak on it!! We all we got!!!

[@kujo6042]

So what you guys are basically saying is that systemic racial oppression isn't so much what's going on anymore but the history of systemic racial oppression is still effecting the people who's fairly immediate families were actually oppressed? Now i feel like that definitely makes sense.

[@allofshope]

🎯🎯🎯 Precisely! You my friend are one of a few who actually understand nuance. 👊🏾

[@kujo6042]

@allofshope I think one of the next steps is that we need to stop allowing holidays or holimonths that promote segregation. It sounds heartless, but think about it...any holiday that celebrates 1 race but leaves the rest out is inherently racist. Also I went to public school in the United States and they focused heavily on black slavery and such, which I understand is partly because of it being so recent but the fact is that it just promotes more segregation. We rounded up Japanese people in the US and shoved them into internment camps where many died. You hear about it once. We rounded up Irish immigrants and made them "indentured servants" (slaves with beds)...only hear about that once. These are just a couple of examples. The more you dwell on the past, the more it will continue to affect the future. Much respect for being someone to rise above all of that. 👊👊

[@kujo6042]

Liked and subbed also... great intellectual conversation and very relevant to our current issues in United States

[@beretam9beretam987]

Are those claims of laziness supported by number.

[@allofshope]

Did you watch the video?

[@abigailyah3462]

Broke Fresh and Fit....

[@allofshope]

lol…good one

[@DJCole34]

I don’t want to do this, not that I can’t!

[@kurtgainz]

Martin Luther King was no liar.

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

1950s MLK was needed. 2024 (Wannabe MLKs not needed)

[@kurtgainz]

@CanadianPhinsFan853 After the CIA and FBI killed off the leadership (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton ect) The white supremacist movement simply went underground. Famous Civil Rights opponent and 3rd longest serving governor in U.S. history George Wallace continued to hold office until 1987. How was that possible if everything was fine in 1950?

[@vward4871]

He was a betrayer of his own kind. An evil evil man.

[@tonyfarris6400]

I was right with you guys, until all the religious CRAP BS.

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

Absolutely. Religion, especially monotheism, is far more oppressive to other faiths, than any western government is to ethnicities.

[@allofshope]

It’s a free country…thanks for watching 🙏🏾 (consider the ideas)

[@thedonprince7941]

Tether babble

[@allofshope]

The creation of pejorative terms continues lol 👏🏾

[@thegod4513]

@@allofshope Nigerians have 7th most populated country in the world but ranked 141st in GDP. Nigerian is rich is resources but yet 98% still live in poverty.