Because in the context of the posts they’re making it literally doesn’t make sense to refer to Americans as a whole.
Why would a white American care about being called the n-word?
No idea what is happening but why tf do some people think that when others say Americans or gringos they refer to black people specifically???
No they just mean American people… 😭😭😭
If you made a Venn diagram of people who use Africans as “the good ones” and of people who claim European colonialism has been over for hundreds of years you’d almost have a circle
Jackson, Mississippi (80% black) deals with year long lacking infrastructure and black residents going weeks without clean water
Newark, NJ (45% black pop) constantly struggles to meet baseline water quality standards
POC are 34% less likely to have full plumbing
I’ve had people tell me black Americans are privileged because they’ve never been b0mbed, poisoned, starved, etc and you’re fundamentally misunderstanding that relationship the majority of black Americans have with the state
We have lead paint in public housing in a system where black mortality rates are 3x higher than white counterparts in a nation with a school to prison pipeline where prison based slavery brings in over 10 billion annually
No I think blackface is considered super racist is because it is super racist. If Americans were the reasons you became aware of that fact then that’s a personal issue
Throwing this at black Americans who were the least likely to vote for trump by a large margin and also the most affected by attacks on the civil rights voting act would be such a nothing burger I fear
btw i think more of us need to just shut conversations with americans down by saying "isnt trump your president" anytime they want to bring up racism in other countries as a gotcha
every single black person from USA is way more privileged than any non-EU member white european
it's hilarious that Americans think that they're part of world underclass just because of the colour of their skin
you guys are part of the system, you too benefit from imperialism