Why The U.S. Government & Prefer Submissive West Africans to Black Americans

Monday, 1 July 2024

By: TB Obwoge

Many Africans have an issue with the fact that the U.S. often rejects their visas. They are also upset that their money isn't returned to them, for some reason many Africans also think that Americans don't need a vias to travel to their countries. However that is false.

The United States embassy in Ghana has reported that in 2023 it increased its educational visas, yet there are dozens of stories of how West Africans are flooding cities in America without visas as they didn't have a visa and crossed into the US illegally. Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia is one of those cities overwhelmed with West Africans seeking refugee status.

Hundreds of West African asylum seekers have come to Philly since September. They haven’t found a lot of support.

A large influx of West African asylum seekers has left community organizations feeling overwhelmed and unsupported.

Week after week, there were reports of new migrants arriving to Philadelphia. It started off slowly, with just a few people arriving each week, before quickly growing to dozens arriving each week. They were coming from Mauritania, Guinea, Liberia, and other West African countries. But the American life they were pursuing has so far turned out to be more bleak than they had dreamed.

Today, community organizers estimate that roughly 1,000 asylum seekers from West African countries have come to Philadelphia since the fall, and most of them have settled among Southwest Philadelphia’s large African immigrant communities. But the influx of new arrivals has gone largely unnoticed or ignored by Philadelphians, organizers say, leaving community organizations feeling overwhelmed and unsupported in providing care and resources for the migrants.

“It has been a really, really challenging few months,” said Madusu Samaora, president of the Liberian Mandingo Association of Pennsylvania. “We are a small nonprofit. … We cannot take on big projects, because we cannot afford it. We just organize ourselves and try to be there for each other.”

Source Philadelphia Inquirer

I was seated in the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, it was of course a hot day but there were almost a hundred Ghanaians seated in the outside waiting area to get into the embassy. They were mostly there for their visa interviews, of course as with every where I went in Ghana they all stared as if they've never seen another human in their lives.

It was hard to feel that many were often jealous, which is why I think most of them time they enjoyed calling me a white person even though they know damn well I wasn't.

A Ghanaian living in Maryland went on the longest rant via my WhatsApp, he insulted all Black Americans saying that we had no culture or traditions. He went on to say that all Ghanaians respect their elders, even though some young people have killed older Ghanaians.

One houseboy murdered the older woman who employed him to steal from her, another Ghanaian man killed his own mother over 500 GHS which at the time was only around $100 USD. Ghanaians often disrespect their elders but he in his rant is claiming they never do.

However white Ameiricans love when West Africans like Ghanaians & Nigerians call them boss, chairman or Massa.

In an older artile about submissive enslaved Africans in America there is some information about why white Americans prefer submissive Black people.

Django Unchained and the racist science of phrenology

Phrenology really was used to justify slavery, as portrayed in Django Unchained. But it was also used to justify abolition"Why don't they kill us?" asks Calvin Candie, the southern slave owner in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. He wants to know why the African slaves he brutalises do not rise up and take revenge. Before long, he has the skull of a recently deceased slave on the dinner table. "The science of phrenology," he announces, "is crucial to understanding the separation of our two species." He hacks away at the back of the skull with a saw, removing a section of the cranium and pointing to an allegedly enlarged area. In African slaves, Candie claims, this bump is found in the region of the brain associated with "submissiveness".

For Candie, phrenology not only explained slavery, it justified it.

Needless to say, phrenology has now been thoroughly debunked: the idea that the shape of the skull can be used to infer mental characteristics is just plain wrong. But it was extremely popular all over the world during the 19th century, finding converts among reform-minded Bengalis in Kolkata, India, and colonial settlers in Australia. As part of my research into the global history of phrenology, I came across the real-life Calvin Candie.

He was called Charles Caldwell, a doctor from Kentucky who revelled in both phrenology and slave ownership. As in the film, Caldwell was a Europhile, travelling to Paris in the 1820s where he picked up the latest medical craze. He later returned to France in the 1840s in order to hobnob with Pierre Marie Dumoutier, a phrenologist just back from a three-year round-the-world voyage.

Caldwell deployed phrenology in almost exactly the same manner as the fictional Candie. In 1837 he wrote to a friend claiming that "tameableness" explained the apparent ease with which Africans could be enslaved. This was a standard phrenological argument. Areas located towards the top and back of the skull, such as "Veneration" and "Cautiousness", were routinely claimed to be large in Africans. His correspondent concurred, writing: "They are slaves because they are tameable." Clearly enjoying himself, Caldwell replied: "Depend upon it my good friend, the Africans must have a master."

Source: The Guardian News

Several Ghanaians and Nigerians have shared that there is a preference for Africans who don't like Black Americans. One Ghanian claimed that they're more likely to be approved for a visa to the United States.

Even the Ghanaian man who went on a lengthy rant telling me that me and other Black Americans weren't real Black people. He is now no longer in Ghana but in the state of Virginia, where I'm sure he brought his hatred for Black Americans with him.

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