I hate to say this, because it sounds biased, but I don't think Africans that come from Africa directly to the USA have the same view as Africans whose ancestors went through the Middle Passage and were brought as slaves to the Americas. Those whose ancestors were snatched and landed in the USA, Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba, etc have a bias towards labor imo. After all, they were essentially a captive labor force. While Africans of the Slave Diaspora can go hard right and neoliberal just like anyone else, no-one seems to cut quite as hard as a Black person who came from Africa without being enslaved.
Cue Barack Obama, Trevor Noah, Colion Noir, Kwarteng, etc. Africa definitely was brutalized by Colonialism on a genocidal scale, which is why they can produce Giants like Nkrumah, Sankara, but once they land here, they definitely are susceptible to rightward trends, classism, and anti-labor more easily..
Of course, it could just be because they are pushed by rightward capitalists more, but there seems to be a trend in my experience..
I think there's also the self-selection filter. If you understand that America is the great satan and the CIA is the largest impediment to progress on the face of this planet, you're probably not going to try to emigrate to America or the UK. If, however, you lack that perspective, why not go enjoy the colonial spoils in the rotting heart of empire?
Alternatively, the way to get from Africa to the US is by participating in the colonial spoils system at higher and higher levels. So folks who cross the Atlantic today are both heavily invested in the corrupt status quo and riding across on the rat-lines that Westerners laid out to evacuate their stogies when things go south.
I hate to say this, because it sounds biased, but I don't think Africans that come from Africa directly to the USA have the same view as Africans whose ancestors went through the Middle Passage and were brought as slaves to the Americas. Those whose ancestors were snatched and landed in the USA, Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba, etc have a bias towards labor imo. After all, they were essentially a captive labor force. While Africans of the Slave Diaspora can go hard right and neoliberal just like anyone else, no-one seems to cut quite as hard as a Black person who came from Africa without being enslaved.
Cue Barack Obama, Trevor Noah, Colion Noir, Kwarteng, etc. Africa definitely was brutalized by Colonialism on a genocidal scale, which is why they can produce Giants like Nkrumah, Sankara, but once they land here, they definitely are susceptible to rightward trends, classism, and anti-labor more easily..
Of course, it could just be because they are pushed by rightward capitalists more, but there seems to be a trend in my experience..
I think that's more like selection bias. Rich people tend to be the ones with enough money to emigrate.
I think there's also the self-selection filter. If you understand that America is the great satan and the CIA is the largest impediment to progress on the face of this planet, you're probably not going to try to emigrate to America or the UK. If, however, you lack that perspective, why not go enjoy the colonial spoils in the rotting heart of empire?
Alternatively, the way to get from Africa to the US is by participating in the colonial spoils system at higher and higher levels. So folks who cross the Atlantic today are both heavily invested in the corrupt status quo and riding across on the rat-lines that Westerners laid out to evacuate their stogies when things go south.