African/West Indian biases against AAs = sad

[Poitier]

This thread is really disheartening. Divide and conquer, brehs.

We've been divided and conquered for 500 years already. That damage has been done and out of it, separate cultures. You have to acknowledge that and show love when you can. Your platitudes are corny.

 

[Northern Son]

We've been divided and conquered for 500 years already. That damage has been done and out of it, separate cultures. You have to acknowledge that and show love when you can. Your platitudes are corny.

I just don't get why you let the white man dictate so much about how you perceive yourself and others . Believe whatever the hell you want I'm not stopping you I just expressed my thoughts on the thread. Your platitudes are corny to me too .

 

[Poitier]

I just don't get why you let the white man dictate so much about how you perceive yourself and others . Believe whatever the hell you want I'm not stopping you I just expressed my thoughts on the thread.

Do you

 

[Marvel]

The africans that come over here usually made it here because they were "go-getters".

they hate seeing people being unproductive

Isn't odd that that Africans here are "go-getters" and "productive" yet the countries many of them come from are "go-nowheres" and "unproductive"?

 

[mbewane]

Isn't odd that that Africans here are "go-getters" and "productive" yet the countries many of them come from are "go-nowheres" and "unproductive"?

Not if you know anything about history, international economics and international politics.

Shoutout to the CIA, France, IMF, World Bank, Mobutu, Shell, "structural adjustments" and blood diamonds...RIP to Lumumba, Sankara, Boganda and food self-sufficiency...

 

[WaveGang]

bytch made thread is bytch made

 

[WaveGang]

Isn't odd that that Africans here are "go-getters" and "productive" yet the countries many of them come from are "go-nowheres" and "unproductive"?

imperialism/intergration bruh bruh

 

[TheArchitect]

I've had people (on SOHH) tell me that I wasn't black because I was Nigerian and West Indian.

I was shocked and I laugh about it now. Really...all my life I've been living a lie...wow!!!!!

I experienced something similar growing up. I'm belizean-American, but I went to HS in Georgia; so your most likely either white, black, or mixed (and maaaaaybe Hispanic, but their weren't that many). People would call me all kinds of shyt saying "I ain't black". They called me pretty much any famous person of middle eastern descent (from hadji to bin laden to Kumar); "Korean", etcetera, etc, etc....pretty much any kind of dumb shyt...people are fukking stupid....

 

[MikeBrownsJob]

I got a big dikk

 

[mrken12]

Wanting to be called "Black" and not "African American" is not distancing from Africa. It's acknowledging and instilling pride in what we have accomplished in America. A Jamaican immigrant, a Ghanian, a Canadian Black all immigrate to USA and are all "African Americans", it's not a specific term. It's a catchall for ANY African from ANY part of the world living in America. We are African American but more specifically, WE ARE BLACK. I don't have issue with any other African that ain't from America and shows respect, only when you think you have the right answers and can tell us what we should call ourself or how we should view the world. You don't have a seat at the table.



Yes, because those guys were actually born in those country, and they can go back 10 generations and all of their family members are born in the same country. Not a single Black American is just a "Ghanian" or an "Algerian", we are all mutts with different African nations in our blood, Whitemen, Native Americans, etc. I doubt African nations teach you ignorant fukks this though because it was your bytchazz ancestors who sold our people out in the first place.

I was agreeing with you until the last part. That's not entirely true.

 

[Poitier]

I was agreeing with you until the last part. That's not entirely true.

I said it for effect, more so

 

[intruder]

Another one of these threads???

 

[emoney]

Black Americans are the most feared and respected people in the WORLD. Black American culture is just too dope and unique.

I agree it's dope and unique but I don't think anyone really fears you guys like that tbh

You guys (AAs) have a lot of soft power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power


Soft power is a concept developed by Joseph Nye of Harvard University to describe the ability to attract and co-opt rather than coerce, use force or give money as a means of persuasion. Nye coined the term in a 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. He further developed the concept in his 2004 book, Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. The term is now widely used in international affairs by analysts and statesmen. For example, in 2007, CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao told the 17th Communist Party Congress that China needed to increase its soft power, and the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke of the need to enhance American soft power by "a dramatic increase in spending on the civilian instruments of national security – diplomacy, strategic communications, foreign assistance, civic action and economic reconstruction and development."

According to the IfG-Monocle Soft Power Index the United Kingdom currently holds the top spot in soft power thanks to a combination of international perception, global reach of British media, inventions like the world wide web and the Internet, architecture, international diplomacy, students seeking to study in the UK, cultural missions and the number of highly publicized international events held there

 

[emoney]

Let's not kid ourselves.... There's no such thing as pan-Africanism. That dream died when the U.S. government deported Marcus Garvey back to Jamaica. The evidence is as clear as day. I doubt that dream is ever realized....

Political Pan-Africanism is dead but Cultural Pan-Africanism is still very much relevant

 

[emoney]

whoever said that many africans try to emulate americans was correct. Mainly West Africans though. Not necessarily americans, but western culture in general

This thread is over simplifying shyt though. You have your africans who stan the USA and those who recognize yall for the pompous people yall are and disassociate. Then there are those who dont give a fukk, and just wanna get their education, a good job and live life. Stop making generalizations.

many continental Africans that emulate American/Afro-American culture it's just a phase, it's temporary and they usually grow out of it once they finish school. It's really Hip-Hop culture that has become pop culture that they are emulating.