West Indian Americans

I think a lot of what led to my burnout comes from who I am and the community that raised me.

So I'm a first generation Caribbean American.

And anyone who's first born knows that there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that role.

There's caretaking.

And I had two black women administrative assistants reporting to me.

One was Caribbean American.

One was African American.

And I will never forget, like from the beginning, from day one, I felt like those women did not like me.

I'm not exactly sure.

I think it's supposed to be Jamaican or Caribbean American.

According to the

subtitles on my DVD, it's Jamaican accent.

Where did your fear of difficult conversations come from?

Yeah, so I'm a first generation Caribbean American.

My dad is from a small island called Dominica, not the Dominican Republic like my birth certificate says.

My parents were like, my dad's from Dominica.

My parents came right from Nigeria.

There's Caribbean Americans.

Yeah.

Right.

But I also I'm super sensitive to.

to the ways in which Caribbean American and African people sometimes relate to African Americans.

So I always walk the fine line of thinking, you gotta pay your due respect to African Americans.

It just has to be done.

So I actually don't believe in the, I believe we're all African people.

The diaspora.

I'm a diaspora person, but I know that there are some very unique experiences that African Americans have had that they've lived through, that Caribbean Americans have had a different experience, and that African people who've been colonized, we've all had different experiences with Europeans messing with us in different ways.

But it's been different.

Yes, certainly.

And I would recommend reading Sadiya Hortman's Lose Your Mother, where in a section of her book, she talks about how Africans, particularly in Ghana, reacted to African diasporans, African Americans, Caribbean Americans, who were coming to visit what some call the slave castles and other monuments and historic sites associated with transatlantic slavery.

And she specifically speaks about how some of the Africans that she encountered during her travel were not necessarily as moved as she was by what was there in terms of this sort of port, if you will, that served as an emotional anchor for the diaspora.

And I will not spoil the book for you or anyone else, but simply say that.

I hate the diasporic war shit, man.

Like the whole Black American versus Caribbean American versus African, you know, thing.

immigrant, African, Brazilian, Costa Rican, Black.

What

Whereas in Caribbean culture, they are taught how to be an adult sooner.

He also spoke on the controversial claims that Caribbean Americans believe they're better than black Americans.

He also talked about the cancellation of the BMF show and said if there was another actor in place of Little Meech that he believes the show would still be airing.

So he was talking his shit on there.