I’m glad Black Americans are pushing back on this. Because it’s always been strange to me to see ppl come to America, build careers in America, benefit from the opportunities here, participate in and even emulating Black American culture, and then get comfortable lecturing Black Americans about how lazy we are. Criticize America. America deserves criticism. But there’s a difference between criticizing specific problems and developing this superiority complex toward the people whose country and culture helped create the opportunity you’re benefiting from. But I also think Black Americans have to take some accountability for why people sometimes feel this comfortable. We publicly trash America constantly. We tell everybody America is terrible. America is oppressive. Nothing works here. There are no opportunities here. The system is completely against us. And then somebody immigrates here, succeeds here, listens to us talk about our own country that way for years, and eventually starts repeating some version of it themselves, except now they’re talking about us. And suddenly we’re like, ‘Hold on. Who are YOU talking about?’ It’s like if someone talked crazy about their brother to everybody else. Telling ppl everyday, ‘Man, my brother gets on my nerves. He’s irresponsible. He does this, he does that.’ etc. Then one day somebody outside the family says, ‘Yeah, your brother ain’t shit.’ Now you’re ready to fight. And I understand it. Because your immediate reaction is, ‘I can talk about my brother. You can’t.’ But you also have to recognize that you helped make that person comfortable enough to think they could. That’s why I think there’s a lesson here for Black Americans too. We can acknowledge every flaw America has, and there are plenty, without pretending there’s nothing valuable about being American or nothing unique about the opportunities that exist here. Because there’s a reason people from all over the world are still trying to get here. And there’s definitely something ironic about benefiting from America and Black American culture and then turning around and explaining to Black Americans what’s supposedly wrong with Americans.