Amanda Seales Takes On 20 Black Conservatives On Popular YouTube Series

Amanda Seales in 2019.Noel Vasquez / Getty Images file

Amanda Seales is continuing to stand on business as she debated against 20 Black conservatives on the popular YouTube series, Jubilee. The actress, comedian, and activist is trending after recently taking part in a debate where she sat down with 20 Black conservatives.

The sit down was to voice their views on everything from immigration to Black culture. The now viral video included Seales acknowledging the core difference between Black immigrants and Black Americans.

“As the daughter of an immigrant, it is imperative that Black people from other places understand the disparate difference that they exist from Black people in the United States,” Seales said in the video. “It is not the same, period. And ultimately, the best effort that we can do as a diaspora is to lead in understanding, not in judgment. So when I am talking to somebody from Sudan, from the Congo, from Angola, I am listening to understand their experience, not to undermine and I refuse to allow anybody from Grenada, from Angola, from any other place to come and try to undermine the experience of Black Americans.” 

Eventually, both sides agreed that Black communities can’t depend on the government to save them, regardless of which side they’re standing on.