As Minnesota’s Black population grows, African Americans and African immigrants unite
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 18, 2022
Fred de Sam Lazaro:
Agbaje says her parents, like many other African immigrants, heard negative stereotypes about Black Americans.
Journalist and Ph.D. Student Ibrahim Hirsi, a Somali immigrant himself, says those depictions were reinforced by a key American export, Hollywood movies.
Ibrahim Hirsi, Journalist and Doctoral Candidate: Sometimes, it's, they don't want to work, they're lazy people. Sometimes, a majority of them are criminals or drug dealers. They live in neighborhoods that are very dangerous, and you should not be going around them.
