This is easily top 3 dumbest post ever on ABW. A meeting with a white man "downtown" to be told how to act? What bad movie script are you reading from. You really think white folks was giving Black immigrants a pass on anything and running up on them like "Oh you're an immigrant so we'll leave you alone." You're trying to talk about the process that Asians used sending their immigrants to the US and don't even realize it. You and this image you have of every single Black immigrants being these docile, keep your head down and don't cause trouble group is not only historically inaccurate it's just stupid. Using terms like "overseer" as if folks came over here to repeat slavery and was just cool with it
Talking about "they didn't want Black immigrants adding fuel to the fire" seems like you never heard of Kwame Ture, Claudia Jones, Marcus Garvey, Audrey Loiurde, Shirley Chisolm and a host of others. The comment about me growing up in DC was not about Black immigrants shaping the city. It was about your silly idea that somehow Black immigrants weren't integrated into the city and what goes on here. You ain't from here so speaking on it like you know just makes you look even more ignorant.
Also, let me educate you more so: you're making this easy brudda.
I'll start with Marcus Garvey, that you mentioned. He couldn't get shit popping back in his homeland. Who you think was backing his movement here in the United States? Do you think it was his fellow Jamaicans? No, they ran him out of Jamaica, he was upset with the Jamacians over there, which is why he had to bring his shit to the US to get it popping. Who do you think help propel him to his rank? FBAs, not Jamacians
Also Shirley Chisolm, who do you think was backing her movement? Her ethnic group huh? They were in the streets propelling her huh? Nigga no, she came about FBAs, the black panthers, the other social riders to get her name buzzing
Stockley Carmicheal, who you think got him popping in the US, the Caribbeans? Show us the footage where he's talking to his fellow Caribbeans? Or wait, was he surrounding himself around FBA and the FBA struggle? Was he mostly around FBAs? Or was he around "Black Immigrants"
It wasn't no "host of others"
FBAs propped up every person you name, their own ethnic group was not around, nor in the streets supporting their stance. Them folks got popping because of FBAs and their power, fight.
"Black immigrants" as a whole were not on the scene in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
See this is where you start to fumble, you hoover over basic things and don't go into details, see how you just threw out them names without giving the full run down, going into detail. You threw out 4 to 5 names in which FBAs helped prop up. Those people were around FBAs, in the FBAs spaces, not in "black immigrants" space.
History is something I know. FBA history at that, you will lost badly when trying to go toe to toe with me about some history in the US that your family not from. I wouldn't advise you to keep going. It can get ugly. I know your whole setup because I lived it. You just read some white folks shit and going off of that.
Again, that chocolate city has nothing to do with "Black Immigrants" being there in DC. At All, but you keep trying to cram "black immigrants" into the space. I'm not going to let you latch on to FBA history bud.
Your kin not apart of FBA struggle no matter how you try and jam your folks in. The history doesn't say so