re: High achieving African immigrants have crowded out black Americans

At my school, there is no tension really between Africans and "African-Americans"( Man i hate that term.) In high school I had a friend who was from Nigeria. He was one of the most well-spoken intelligent people I have ever known in my life. But he wasnt condescending or anything like that. He was the type of person to finish the classwork in 5 minutes, and spent the rest of the time helping the rest of the class. This man made a 2100 on the SAT, and was legit pissed off at himself for fricking around so much and not doing better on the test. While I was proud of my 1500, he was beating himself up over a 2100

The most amazing thing about him was that he was a true student-athlete. He was an absolute manimal on the football field. And he still played soccer in the spring season.

He eventually became valedictorian easily went to Cornell University on a full scholarship. He told me stories of how he grew up in Africa. Many nights they would have no food to eat. They had to wear a lot of the same clothes over and over again, other sad stuff like that. But he also told stories of how he had a pet lion and they would go searching in the jungle for elephants to eat, so I never knew which of his stories were real and which were fake But regardless, he remains one of the most closest friends and most inspiring person I know.