BlackJesus
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No nikka we just have different priorities and worry about entirely different things.
It’s the reason why Nigerians are the highest educated group in America.
You can keep the smoke. I’ll take that degree
African rapper makes 'stay away from the akata' song
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No nikka we just have different priorities and worry about entirely different things.
It’s the reason why Nigerians are the highest educated group in America.
You can keep the smoke. I’ll take that degree
PoPimp84
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No nikka we just have different priorities and worry about entirely different things.
It’s the reason why Nigerians are the highest educated group in America.
You can keep the smoke. I’ll take that degree
This is exactly why we're different. You’d rather boast at how well you do in white lands as opposed to making your home the world power it should be. You see the things we worry about about and fight for opened the doors for you to come here and make moves seeing that y’all don’t have it in you to make the necessary moves at home. But hey if you going to be a parasite might as well be the best one you can be...
Sithlord Piff
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Notice he's not staying away from the music style akatas created. 
Doesn’t matter. Regardless of race if you live in California guess what? You eat burritos. Mexican culture is everywhere and last I saw there were black people at the taco truck I frequent
Immigrants are here bro. Deal with it
Again as I said I don’t eat Mexican food
even with that said your analogy doesn’t make any damn sense
how is someone’s food... appropriating their culture especially if they puts their restaurant/food truck in the neighborhood that‘s different from them
come up with a better analogy - breh 
Y’all in here sounding like Jews and Cacs not understanding rap lyrics. This shyt is embarrassing
BlackJesus
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Again as I said I don’t eat Mexican food
even with that said your analogy doesn’t make any damn sense
how is someone’s food... appropriating their culture especially if they puts their restaurant/food truck in the neighborhood that‘s different from them
Black Americans put their songs and music videos in front of people not like them. The analogy is the the same. Food is a cultural product just like music and clothes.
You can't appropriate what is being openly promoted and thrown in peoples faces bro. It's just the normal spread of culture.
You seem to dislike other people "using" black culture, so you're basically a isolationist nationalist kinda like Trump but black. That's pretty lame
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I don’t think you really understand the definition of appropriating one’s culture
just because you eat tacos twice a week doesn’t mean you’re taking their culture from them now if you was to cook & eat whatever they have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks daily and use their ingredients, recipes & use whatever flatware etc. etc. - that would be considered appropriating
This.
Black twitter is lighting his ass up
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The word Akata is a term of degradation, not a term of endearment. It is a divisive slur, and as a result it has caused the opposite of solidarity. It has contributed to the “Otherizing” of native Black Americans and has driven a wedge between those who use the word Akata and those who get called the word Akata.
Use of the word Akata on Twitter
In the past 10 years with the explosion of twitter use, we are allowed an insight into the minds of people that we may not get from a personal interaction. It is something about twitter that makes people say what on their minds. Because of this, for the first time Native Black Americans were able to see on display how we were classified as a whole by a large part of Nigerian society. Many 1st and 2nd generation Nigerians Americans took to twitter to voice their frustration with Native Black Americans or “Akatas”, for simply just existing. According to many twitter users from Nigeria, Akatas are lazy, ghetto and loud. According to many Nigerians, their parents warned them against marrying “Akatas” and threatened consequences if they did. They call it the “Don’t marry an Akata talk”.
“You know your African when your mom says..you can marry anyone you want but PLEASE dont bring home an akata man to me!” @_LadyLuckk Apr 9, 2010
“1. dont marry an akata 2. dont get arrested. i’ll not bail U out. 3. dont join the air force, marines & such. 4. dont get any1 pregnant.” @adewus4real Oct 25, 2012
Recently a group of Naija Americans? not wanting to be publicly associated with the racism deeply ingrained in Nigerian society towards Black Americans began to launch an effort to willfully deceive people about the word Akata and the way it is used. Some began to change definitions in online dictionaries and translations to make Akata seem like a positive term. “Contrary to popular opinion among non-Yorubas and some "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">Nigerians or Africans, who does not understand this word, akata does not mean cotton "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">picker or slave and it is not derogatory”"); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">[vii].
Some of them even suggested that the term in its original meaning of “Wild animal” or “wild cat” was ascribed to Native Blacks because the Black Panther Party used a panther as their logo and that was one of the well known groups in the 1960s. None of these rebuttals are plausible nor do they make any sense and besides there are many Nigerians who openly admitted what the word means and how it is used.
In the past 10 years with the explosion of twitter use, we are allowed an insight into the minds of people that we may not get from a personal interaction. It is something about twitter that makes people say what on their minds. Because of this, for the first time Native Black Americans were able to see on display how we were classified as a whole by a large part of Nigerian society. Many 1st and 2nd generation Nigerians Americans took to twitter to voice their frustration with Native Black Americans or “Akatas”, for simply just existing. According to many twitter users from Nigeria, Akatas are lazy, ghetto and loud. According to many Nigerians, their parents warned them against marrying “Akatas” and threatened consequences if they did. They call it the “Don’t marry an Akata talk”.
“You know your African when your mom says..you can marry anyone you want but PLEASE dont bring home an akata man to me!” @_LadyLuckk Apr 9, 2010
“1. dont marry an akata 2. dont get arrested. i’ll not bail U out. 3. dont join the air force, marines & such. 4. dont get any1 pregnant.” @adewus4real Oct 25, 2012
Recently a group of Naija Americans? not wanting to be publicly associated with the racism deeply ingrained in Nigerian society towards Black Americans began to launch an effort to willfully deceive people about the word Akata and the way it is used. Some began to change definitions in online dictionaries and translations to make Akata seem like a positive term. “Contrary to popular opinion among non-Yorubas and some "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">Nigerians or Africans, who does not understand this word, akata does not mean cotton "); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">picker or slave and it is not derogatory”"); background-size: 1px 1px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">[vii].
Some of them even suggested that the term in its original meaning of “Wild animal” or “wild cat” was ascribed to Native Blacks because the Black Panther Party used a panther as their logo and that was one of the well known groups in the 1960s. None of these rebuttals are plausible nor do they make any sense and besides there are many Nigerians who openly admitted what the word means and how it is used.
MasterOfAllHeSurveyz
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No nikka we just have different priorities and worry about entirely different things.
It’s the reason why Nigerians are the highest educated group in America.
You can keep the smoke. I’ll take that degree
That's a myth.
