<p>I agree with this poster. I feel as though blacks who have been living in the USA for generations have become stationary whereas first generation Africans (like all immigrants) come to this country DESPERATE for oppurtunity and they strive to succeed. For instance, my parents were Ugandan refugees. They saw nothing but poverty, death, and abuse for their entire lives until they fled to America. Once they got here, they seized oppurtunities and implented values into my siblings and I such as the need for a good education. I feel as though other blacks, particularly inner-city blacks, are too complacent in their culture and sometimes perpertualize stereotypes of themselves in doing so. They’ve never experienced hardship like immigrant African Americans (or Haitians in the poster’s case) so they do not realize what they have entirely.</p>