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It's very weird to me rich Nigerians can abuse the system, but poor South Africans are rejected as 'African American' altogether due to the color of their skin.
by axaxs 7y ago
It's very weird to me rich Nigerians can abuse the system, but poor South Africans are rejected as 'African American' altogether due to the color of their skin. Honestly, US race dealings are a cancer, I would move anywhere else.
- vinay427 7y agoIt has some relevance for Americans, and clearly wasn't made to fit every global community. I'm not defending it, but I would think domestic applicants are far more numerous and therefore the effects on them merit more consideration.
- faceplanted 7y agoIt's that American cultural aversion to ever admitting that race is tied to history, they want to be seen to be doing something about racism but still do it through a racist lens where what matters is whether you look black and not what it actually means to have been discriminated against by American history and policy.
- MiroF 7y ago> not what it actually means to have been discriminated against by American history and policy. There is a massive historical element to the position that most black americans find themselves in now. But there is also ongoing racism, which I don't see how you can tackle with only color blind policies.
- bsanr2 7y agoIt's because predicating carefully-chosen giveaways to "the right kind" of people with darker skin is easier and preferable to the elite than what is actually righteous and necessary: capital transfers (reparations) to the descendents of people who were wronged, and the people who are affected by stigma against the people who were wronged. The fact that all of the various workarounds end up targeting people nominally outside the scope is a feature, not a bug.
- uncletaco 7y agoYou know a lot of poor South African white people who immigrate to America?
- MiroF 7y agoCheers for this. So many people talking out of their asses here.