I think Americans need to get their heads out their asses and realise that black history doesn't begin and end with them. The comment in the post says people in the Caribbean can empathise more... WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THE UK CAME FROM?? Our grand parents immigrated to the uk, does that suddenly mean our whole history ceases to exist? Our ancestors were also enslaved.

And I hate how African Americans seem to be okay portraying many different areas of the black experience from an African warlord to Jamaicans (all the while with shitty accents) yet for some reason to play an African American you have to 'LIVE' that experience?? It boils down to the egotistical way americans engage with the world in general. And as black people we are also always force fed black american history like its completely our own. I never learnt about Marcus Garvey in school and i'm sure the average african american doesn't even know who he is but they wanna open their mouths to tell me about MY HISTORY?

Its hilarious that the countries with the most enslaved Africans were actually Brazil and countries in the Caribbean but let an af american tell it and you'd think the whole thing revolved around america. Just shut the fuck up man.