African chick who has lived in the US for 10 years asks whether she can speak on black issues that affect her in the US. FBA say no!
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Not me I love black americans I dated 3 black Americans and the only thing that ruined it was like long distance because I don't want to live in America
Other than that nah the love and respect is there for the most part
Common a black american, put my cousin on to his first big movie Burning Sands, my cousin is born in America but his father is born in England
Without that there would be no Supacell on Netflix or it would be different.
When I said "nobody" I meant other groups of people, in general. There are always outliers but when I'm speaking on majorities
Coli milic00ns simultaneaously try to gatekeep blackness and accuse others of distancing themselves from blackness. In the end, they just want to be able to hate on other black people.
Shut up
HarlemHottie
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Are you serious rn?! NO, she was not educated. She left school for the fields in 3rd grade because that was life for poor, rural black kids back then. She fled for her life in the middle of the night and came to a place where she continued to clean ww's houses. The schools were segregated. There are no HBCU's here. What the fukking fukk? You so bold with it and don't know shyt. It's disrespectful, you don't see that?
I'll remind you that you heart emoji'd a post I made yesterday saying I put money on son you cosigned. It's not funny to me AT ALL. It's a fact. And while white nationalism is on the rise all over the world, what are black immigrants in the US doing? Talking down on other black people. We don't wanna hear no colorism/ featurism shyt from her rn.But you said you ain't even watch, so, again, what you so mad for? Why you in here arguing so hard for a c00n?
Bushmaster69
Superstar
Bushmaster69
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She isn't speaking on your "black american" issues.This is why y’all can’t speak on black American issues
She is speaking about her experince as a Black woman in America, who happens to be continental African, and isn't seen as any different in the eyes of racists.
Bushmaster69
Superstar
You already know little man.And what group is that
All of this is moot
Africans are black
Black Americans are black
Black Latinos are black
Black is Race/skin tone
It’s not as complex as all these fools trying to make it.
What if a person is born in America but their parents are African immigrantsShe's playing timid cuz she know she wrong. She been here 12 yrs. I have jeans older than that.
No, she don't get to speak on colorism, texturism, and featurism- internal FBA issues. She doesn't have the right to tell us who to exclude from blackness. Nobody wants or asked for her opinion. She can talk about why the wm ran her out of her country and how FBA gave her a safe haven.
Do Africans pop all this colororism/ texturism/ featurism shyt when they go to latino countries? Do they even go to latino countries? If no, why not? Exactly.
HarlemHottie
Uptown Thoroughbred
Arthur (2000) stated that most participants in his study of first generation African immigrants “acknowledged that their foreign backgrounds made it difficult, if not impossible, to grasp the meaning of lack-White polarization in American society” (pp. 73-74). Ogbu & Simons (1998) suggest that many Black immigrants are voluntary immigrants who come to the United States for economic reasons, social mobility and educational opportunities. As a result, they may be more optimistic about overcoming racial barriers in the United States or see these barriers as less significant than African Americans (Ogbu & Simons, 1998). Additionally, because of racial discrimination, some Black immigrants actively work against being perceived as African American, as a protective form of social distancing (Jackson, 2010). Social distancing by Black immigrants can include the use of cultural objects (e.g. national flags, accents) to highlight an ethnic/foreign identity that can protect from racial stereotypes and prejudices that are projected towards African Americans (Jackson, 2010; Vickerman, 2001; Waters 1999). ). Another form of social distancing includes avoiding close relationships with African Americans.
No, you fukking clown. That's what chick in the op was doing. What she gon tell us about featurism and colorism? Are we somehow expected to exclude our ls/ wavy grandmas from the family tree??My father is a twin. He's a ds bm. His twin sister looks like an Asian woman. We not doing this with yall. Yall sound crazy. America is not wherever you came from.
She just said she’s not a black woman, she’s African.
The fact that y’all think you won’t be seen differently in the eyes of racists means you don’t understand racism thus you can’t speak on black american issues.
Her examples of issues were “colorism” and “texturing”
Those issues have nothing to do with America. In fact, colorism is worse in Africa than it is in the US.
Bushmaster69
Superstar
So if i say the the grass isnt green and the sky isnt blue, even though they both are, that means they are not?
Get off that type of reasoning.
Opinions dont trump objective truths.
She is a Black woman, who happens to be continental African, in America, and she can speak on issues she deals with as a Black woman in America.
She doesn't need your permission. Who are you?
So she’s allowed to speak on her home country, that she likely knows very little about, but she can’t speak on her own experiences because it happens to be based on her blackness
She’s only asking if she can speak on issues that actually affect her. Colorism, texturism, featurism, etc. Those are pretty surface level black issues that aren’t even unique to Black Americans, except for maybe the people (white supremacists) who perpetuate the behaviors.
