In America, we are all black, does not matter if you are black American, Haitian, Jamaican, Trinidadian, except if you are from India.They are called Indian, even though some are darker. There needs to be a stop to that “hierarchy” within the black communities,especially in the Caribbean communities. We are all black, coming to America for a better opportunity. then, we get caught up in making ourselves feel better by bringing others down. We see Haitians and Jamaicans getting offended when mistaken for the other. Some Jamaican in their mistaken believe they are better because they flew to America while believing all Haitians came in a boat illegally. That’s not true. My first time in a airplane was when I came to America. In high school, you see them fighting each other over nonsense. What the Jamaicans forget is that Haiti helped them gaining their independence after Haiti gained its independence. The media portray Haiti as the poorest country in the hemisphere while forgetting it was the first black country to gain its independence and had helped many others to gain theirs. This game of who’s better is what the ones in power wants to keep us divided. We seem to forget that others are already treating us badly, therefore there is no need to tear each other up. We, immigrants, need to stick together and lift each other up. Together we are stronger than divide and divided we fall; they know that that is why they want us divided.We need to stop and come together to fight this oppression.
Hi Stephanie, great point made! I think that everyone is who isn’t white is called black at some degree and the “hierarchy” as you mention does divide us.