Ethnic racist ideas, like all racist ideas, cover up the racist policies wielded against African Americans and Black immigrants. Whenever Black immigrants in the United States compare their economic standing to that of African Americans, whenever they agree that their success stories show that antiracist Americans are overstating racist policies against African Americans, they are tightening the handcuffs of racist policy around their own wrists. Black immigrants’ comparisons with African Americans conceal the racial inequities between Black immigrants and non-Black immigrants.
