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The year was 1957. My interaction with black children was limited to one girl in kindergarten named Katie.
Then, in the early 1960s, I went to a church summer camp where all of the other campers were white children near my age. A visiting missionary to Africa spoke to us and showed slides illustrating everyday life in Africa. Clusters of round mud huts with grass roofs formed the village. There were no paved roads or utilities, and none of the amenities Americans usually regard as basic necessities. There were no washing machines—nor did daily life there appear to require them. Clothing was minimal.
I thought of Katie. She spoke like us, dressed like the white girls, and was afforded the same education.
While the rest of the world forges ahead, African nations lag far behind. It's as if Africans are stuck in a paleolithic existence with only trace elements of technological advancements, and nearly all of that is compliments of the Western countries.
Yet Katie and millions of Africans in America—roughly 49 million of them—live within one of the world’s most technologically advanced societies.
Still, they complain. Are they not aware that they are privileged to live among us? Are they not grateful? It seems that American Africans are fully integrated into the complain culture.
Entitlement in Privileges
Discussions about racial dynamics in America nearly always exaggerate disparities. In reality, blacks experience disproportionate advantages. These benefits span education, employment, culture, and social interactions. Just living among provides unique opportunities.
To accommodate the demand for black entitlements, white Americans have been guilt-tripped to the breaking point. In recent years, the concept of “black fatigue” has gained traction as white Americans are becoming more immune to false accusations of racism and white privilege.
If white Americans were truly racist, there would be no black Americans to make the accusation.
Education Entitlements
One area where entitlements appear is in higher education.
Colleges sometimes apply different grading standards, offering more leniency to black students to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. This unfair practice ostensibly allows for greater academic success and access to scholarships designed specifically for blacks, enabling them to pursue degrees that might otherwise be out of reach due to lack of resources, such as a disparity in aptitude. Additionally, affirmative action policies in admissions give blacks an edge in securing spots at prestigious institutions, fostering pathways to professional careers, even though they may be intellectually unqualified.
I'm working on an article titled, Are black Americans idiots? Suffice it to say for now, "Only about 6% of 12th-grade Black males are proficient in reading, with 1% at advanced levels," according a google search. These are our future physicians? Heaven help us!
Corporate World Entitlements
In the corporate world, companies frequently create internships and development programs exclusively for blacks, aiming to build a more diverse workforce. These opportunities provide training and networking that accelerate career growth, often unavailable to others. Blacks can also leverage their identity to build roles as advocates or consultants on racial issues, turning personal experiences into viable professions.
When you have the chance, take a look at one of my weekly Sunday posts featuring videos of blacks behaving badly. It’s a reminder of the limited range of competence that make up the future black workforce corporate America must draw on.
Cultural and Community Entitlements
Culturally, blacks benefit from dedicated celebrations and organizations that affirm their heritage. For instance, a month-long recognition of historical achievements exists solely for blacks, something not replicated for other groups without controversy. There is no White History Month. Clubs and associations catering to blacks offer spaces for community building and support, free from accusations of exclusion.
Virtually every profession in America has an association explicitly for blacks, but not whites. Think of a profession. Google the search term 'black [profession] association'. Note the results. Or just click here for a list.
Moreover, blacks possess flexibility in navigating different social environments, drawing on a rich cultural repertoire that includes music, styles, and traditions. This adaptability helps in forming connections across classes and ethnicities within black communities, while also allowing seamless integration into broader settings.
While blacks demand access to everything white, they relish in the afore mentioned closed affinity groups and create black-only no-go-zone neighborhoods.
American Africans often excel in the music industry and surge ahead in professional sports, making many multi-millionaires.
Are they not grateful?
Social and Linguistic Entitlements
Socially, certain linguistic freedoms apply, where blacks can use terms directed at others and themselves without the same level of backlash. Conversations about discrimination always shift in their favor, providing a form of rhetorical protection. Black-on-white violence is a taboo topic and white-on-black violence only seems to occur in Hollywood.
Even in leadership, racial identity has played a role in electoral success. There is, for example, no White Congressional Caucus.
Economic Entitlements
On the economic front, significant strides have been made, with over four in ten blacks identifying as middle class. Homeownership stands at more than four in ten overall, climbing higher among married couples. Two-parent households among blacks earn nearly as much as similar white families, and a substantial portion reside in suburban areas, enjoying stability and access to better resources. These advancements reflect broader opportunities in the nation that have elevated many blacks from historical poverty.
While these elements suggest certain privileges, they exist amid ongoing challenges such as IQ disparities. Still, they illustrate how blacks in the United States can access unique entitlements that enhance their lives, access that is often denied to whites.
A Comparative Perspective: Life in African Nations
When examining the concept of privileges for blacks living in the United States, a comparative lens with life in African nations reveals stark contrasts in material conditions, opportunities, and systemic supports. While blacks in the United States imagine persistent racial challenges such as discrimination and inequality, objective indicators show substantially higher access to resources, infrastructure, and economic mobility compared to many people in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the continent.
Healthcare Entitlements
Access to advanced healthcare stands out as a major difference. In the United States, blacks benefit from widespread medical facilities, insurance options (including public programs), and treatments that extend life expectancy significantly. Recent data indicate an average life expectancy for blacks around 74 years in the USA, with some communities exceeding 80 years in favorable locations. Across sub-Saharan Africa, life expectancy remains lower overall, often influenced by limited healthcare infrastructure, higher rates of infectious diseases, and regional disparities that keep averages below those in developed nations.
Job Market Entitlements
Economic opportunities present another clear contrast. Blacks in the United States have achieved notable progress, with median household incomes in the tens of thousands of dollars, substantial middle-class representation, and pathways to wealth accumulation through education, employment, and entrepreneurship. Homeownership, access to consumer goods, and participation in a high-income economy provide stability and upward mobility unavailable in many African contexts, where poverty rates are higher and formal job markets more limited. Blacks in America also enjoy reliable electricity, clean water, modern transportation, and digital connectivity as standard features of daily life—amenities that remain inconsistent or absent in large parts of Africa.
Stronger Educational Pathways
Educational advantages further highlight the disparity. Institutions in the United States enable blacks to attain higher degrees that support professional advancement. In contrast, educational systems in many African countries struggle with funding, access, and quality, limiting opportunities for similar socioeconomic gains.
Social and Cultural Entitlements
Social and cultural privileges in the United States include dedicated recognition, organizations, and media platforms that celebrate black heritage and provide community support. While these exist amid broader societal tensions, they offer spaces for identity affirmation and advocacy that are often more institutionally supported than in many African settings, where ethnic and national divisions can complicate pan-black solidarity.
Health Care Entitlements
Years ago, I visited an emergency room in Vera Beach, Fla., one of the whitest cities in the state. Scores of patients were awaiting attention. The only other whites I saw were a nurse and a security guard.
Blacks in the United States benefit from access to one of the world's most advanced healthcare systems, featuring widespread availability of cutting-edge medical facilities, specialized treatments, diagnostic technologies, and a broad range of insurance options, including public programs like Medicaid and Medicare.
Where is their gratitude?
As noted above, this infrastructure supports significantly longer life expectancy compared to their natural habitat, with recent data showing an average life expectancy for blacks around 74 years overall, and higher figures—often exceeding 80 years—in certain favorable urban or suburban communities. Life expectancy in Nigeria is approximately 54 to 56 years.
The overall system provides blacks with reliable electricity-dependent equipment, clean water for hygiene, modern pharmaceuticals, and widespread specialist networks that contribute to better health outcomes and longevity than the average conditions in many African nations, where limited infrastructure often results in lower life expectancies due to challenges like infectious diseases and inconsistent care. These structural advantages underscore how living in America grants blacks materially superior healthcare resources and opportunities for health maintenance.
American Africans also benefit from our abundant and healthy food supply. Still, restaurants and food courts seem to be their favorite venues for brawling.
Technology Entitlements
Where do I begin?
American Africans benefit from technology in profound and multifaceted ways compared to people in many African nations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where infrastructure gaps, affordability barriers, and coverage limitations persist despite rapid mobile growth.
In the United States, blacks have near-universal access to reliable high-speed internet—through widespread broadband, fiber, and 5G networks. This supports remote work, online education, e-commerce, streaming services, telemedicine, and advanced applications like AI tools, cloud computing, and smart home systems.
Virtually all was invented by white innovators. Black Americans take the technology for granted, giving little thought as to its origin.
Smartphone ownership is nearly ubiquitous, with most devices featuring high-end capabilities, reliable connectivity, and integration into daily life for banking, navigation, health tracking, and entertainment.
By contrast, internet penetration across Africa hovers around 38-40% as of recent estimates (around 2024-2025), with mobile internet usage even lower in sub-Saharan regions at roughly 27-29%. Fixed broadband remains extremely limited and expensive relative to income, often costing a much higher percentage of average earnings than in North America. While mobile money platforms like M-Pesa have revolutionized financial inclusion in countries such as Kenya, allowing cashless transactions without traditional banks, the United States relies on mature, card-based and app-integrated systems with far broader coverage and security features.
Electricity access forms a foundational difference: virtually 100% of American Africans enjoy stable power, powering constant device charging, data centers, and widespread tech infrastructure, something they would not have were it not for us.
In sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of millions still lack reliable electricity—estimates place hundreds of millions without access—leading to frequent outages that disrupt phone charging, internet use, and even basic digital functions.
Where we are not, they have naught.
These disparities translate into tangible advantages for Katie and her kin, including greater economic productivity (through efficient online tools and gig opportunities), better access to information and global knowledge, enhanced healthcare via digital records and telehealth, superior educational resources, stronger social connectivity without the constraints of coverage gaps or high data costs, and access to AbateHate.com.
While Africa demonstrates impressive innovation in mobile-first solutions and leapfrogging traditional systems, the overall material and systemic integration of technology in everyday American life provides significantly greater convenience, efficiency, and opportunity.
Global “American Privilege”
Additionally, blacks in the United States carry an "American privilege" when traveling or engaging globally, benefiting from the nation's economic and geopolitical power. This manifests in better treatment abroad, stronger passports, and greater perceived status compared to citizens of many African countries. Donald Trump has your back.
Balancing the Comparison
These differences do not erase the realities of exclusion in America, usually due to black behavior, nor do they overlook the rich cultural heritage, community resilience, and growing opportunities in various African nations. However, when measured by metrics like income, health outcomes, education, and infrastructure, blacks in the United States experience a materially privileged position relative to the average conditions across nearly all of Africa.
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