I’ll just add in my opinion since I am an immigrant to this country, though I got my citizenship when I was 13.
You can fucking want all the immigrants to “assimilate” to the “American Way”(whatever the fuck that even means, when America doesn’t even have a fucking official language. The inhabitants of this fucking USA have been speaking other languages much longer than English was established) ALL DAY LONG. It means jack fucking shite.
I lived life always being aware that non black people would instantly treat me a certain way just because f my fuckign skin color. I had to live my life making you fuckers feel comfortable around my black skin, foolishly believing that you fuckers would take ME and realize black people aren’t monsters. Thinking the next time you fuckers would come across another black person just minding their godtdamn fucking business, you’d not treat them like they are less than human.
Never fucking worked! Because I was still verbally attacked, one time I was 5 and white people in a car threw a glass bottle at my sister and I while shouting *******. I have been called ****** more times than I want to count, by people like you. And I’ve had to swallow that shit every single time, because there is no fucking point to addressing it, because you fuckers don’t give a shit!
I have had to be humiliated, accused of stealing, threatened with a call to the cops when I stole nothing. Had to be humiliated as I was surrounded, all my stuff taken from my hands, checked. Nothing found. I was then accused of stealing all the other fucking items I had from other stores.
I was saved by finally remembering all my receipts were in my wallet. I had to stand there crying as the bitch cross checked every item.
Why should I fucking steal anything when I fucking work hard for my checks?
Being a good person, a good Black, making you fuckers feel comfortable around a Black, making myself as small as possible so you fuckers don’t think I’m about to rob you of your purse you’re clutching to your chest in the fucking elevator. Or going to do who knows what as I stand behind you in line, having to move myself out of the line so I don’t make you uncomfortable. Choosing to walk in the street so you don’t feel terrified as I walk past you while you’re on the side walk.
My accent is more NJ and very American with just a little mix of my lingering Kenyan accent.
Fuck! You fuckers can’t even stand us using Our Rights, the same ones you have! It’s all fucking okay if you freaks demand accountability from cops, your right to get loud/expect questions to be answered, and you fucking go about your day. Meanwhile you fuckers are fine with black people being brutalized and killed by cops no matter what the fuck we do, because we are not human in your eyes.
SO FUCK YOU AND FUCK THIS ASSIMILATION BULLSHIT YOU PRETEND MATTERS!
NONE OF IT MATTERS TO YOU! It changes nothing of how you look at immigrants. Almost all of my family is full of college grads, Masters, my sister is a PhD! I am literally the only college dropout in my family. We pay our fucking taxes, we don’t fucking break laws, commit crimes. We have always been hard workers, we had to go deliver newspapers with our parents, clean large homes and offices with our parents.
I remember the one time my mom used WIC or food stamps, literally buying nothing but the bare minimum, store brand, no luxuries like candy ice cream steaks, NO just bread, milk, canned veggies. And to this day I can still see the disgusted faces of the cashier and the person waiting in line behind us as my mom handed over the food stamp. My mom never complained of having to do below Min wage, hard labor work, and the one time she uses the assistance that is there for people in dire situations to use, you fuckers look down on her.
No matter how fucking much immigrants “assimilate” to this fucking farce of an American culture, it just doesn’t matter. We are all painted with the same brush stroke.
