African History =/= Black History
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Africans are blacks and black history started well before slavery.
I know.. Keep reading through the thread.
We make a distinction between race and ethnicity in here
This lost Dominican trying to make a rational thread in the Root, @gonzo8402 congratulations you're looking to be the Root's first time WOAT poster of the year 
This lost Dominican trying to make a rational thread in the Root, @gonzo8402 congratulations you're looking to be the Root's first time WOAT poster of the year
The Root doesn't take kindly to rationale?
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
You haven't said anything rational though
And you never answered my question, are you Dominican?
I've gotten daps for a few things..You haven't said anything rational though
And you never answered my question, are you Dominican?
I count that as speaking rationally
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
I've gotten daps for a few things..
I count that as speaking rationally
But are you Dominican though
Third time I've asked, kinda wondering why you're avoiding the question
But are you Dominican though
Third time I've asked, kinda wondering why you're avoiding the question
Keep wondering why you're asking...
I'll answer if you tell me
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I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
Keep wondering why you're asking...
I'll answer if you tell me
Because I've only heard Dominicans say the things you've been saying in this thread.
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But using that logic I could say my family history starts in Alabama even though I know that before we were here we were in Illinois. Discounting the time when we were in Africa as not our history is like ignoring my family history from another state cause I've never been or because it would be harder to get the specifics. Which creates a too narrow view of history. Cause really no group has a "start" to history. And if you know that they purposely tried to cut you off from your previous history, why wouldn't you want to go back now that we're more able to? I'd understand you saying the bulk of our focus should be the Americas since we have the strongest connection to our people here but to say anything before that isn't part of our history at all is .
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I think this can be summed up as: We're our own tribe now. This is the direction I'm leaning now.
It really makes very little since for a AA to walk around wearing Sudanese garb because his part of his DNA states so. We are mixed with various tribes forming an entirely new tribe. As I compared, it's like a pit bull terrier walking around saying it's a bulldog.
Not saying we deny or forget our African origins, but we are a new tribe. We need to name ourselves and push forward.
It really makes very little since for a AA to walk around wearing Sudanese garb because his part of his DNA states so. We are mixed with various tribes forming an entirely new tribe. As I compared, it's like a pit bull terrier walking around saying it's a bulldog.
Not saying we deny or forget our African origins, but we are a new tribe. We need to name ourselves and push forward.
Dzali OG
Dz Ali OG...Pay me like you owe me!
If we have a problem with African American perhaps New World Africans (NWA's).
African American history was an interruption in African History. Hypothetically speaking, let's say all the blacks of the diaspora in the Americas and the Carribbean came her by choice and not by force, no slave ships, no slave masters, do you think there would still be a disconnection between our history before crossing the Atlantic and our history after crossing?
