More Africans Enter U.S. Than In Days of Slavery

African-born residents of the United States are sharing their relative prosperity here by sending more than $1 billion annually back to their families and friends.

"Historically, every immigrant group has jumped over American-born blacks," said Eric Foner, the Columbia University historian. "The final irony would be if African immigrants did, too."

So in the end, if immigrant blacks prosper here, then who is really to blame when American-born blacks don't ?