Africans accuse African Americans of "appropriating" their culture (legitimate criticism?)

[How Sway?]

Unfortunately alot of Africans I know seem to have superiority complex when it comes to African Americans , but watch them worship whites when they wear their traditionm garments or speak their language. I know a hausa dude who said that he feels that hes people are better than African Americans because hausa kingdoms sold weaker African tribes to the whites. Alot of Africans have blood on their hands when it comes to slavery and there are still many Africans I know who came from slave selling cultures who still maintain the stigma against those who are descendants of slaves. Pan Africanism has always been a pipe dream.

yeah, see thats what irk me. I wonder if these chicks on twitter were to bytch and moan if some white chick were to wear African Garb (maybe, who knows.)

Its wild/disturbing how there are people in Some parts of Africa right now who have benefited, and in some ways are still benefiting b/c of their Ancestors who traded slaves.

 

[Premeditated]

Yes, because you don't identify House as AA music when it was crafted in midwest urban centers by Black youth and flourished that makes it somehow not AA culture. Aren't you intelligence.

I bet you claim The Olmnecs and Black Chinese, though

he's right though. Even though it was technically pioneered by AAs, most of them didn't fukk with it like that. All the top black artist were popping in Europe in late 80s. Until it eventually got revolutionized by cacs. You can't just claim house music now when yall abandoned it. I bet you can't even name 3 black top house artist without google.

One of the pioneers of house died a few months back, nobody gave a fukk or probably even knew.

 

[DillaTUDE]

We would rather fight than run away from our problems and travel thousands of kilometers across the globe.

So tell me how the hell you're "fighting" white supremacy? By crying about how some African immigrants, who suffer under the SAME system of white supremacy as you, don't "like" you?

I mean what exactly are you doing DIRECTLY to hurt white people that can be considered "fighting"?

 

[Poitier]

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he's right though. Even though it was technically pioneered by AAs, most of them didn't fukk with it like that. All the top black artist were popping in Europe in late 80s. Until it eventually got revolutionized by cacs. You can't just claim house music now when yall abandoned it. I bet you can't even name 3 black top house artist without google.

Except culture is a SUMMATION of a people's way of life through time, not just what they do contemporarily.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Of course they fukking choose to live in those countries as colonialism ruptured the entire fukking continent you nutcase. The impact the Berlin Conference has had on the continent can NEVER be understated.

Wow... So that's an excuse for them to leave their country? All I'm seeing here from you is a bunch of excuses on top of excuses while avoiding the main point.

And yeah, they "CHOOSE to live in those countries" like you CHOOSE to live in America. It's 2015, it's not that hard to receive a passport and get the hell out of America if you find living in a predominately white society too tough, you know?

LMAO! Wow... That is probably the dumbest and weakest counter/strawman I've ever seen. And you call me a nutcase???? lol...

And of course African immigrants are "naive to the racism" in America because of white supremacy as black Americans are "naive to the racism" that continental Africans have had to endure since we came into contact with white people. Your ignorance provides no better proof of this.

So you admit overall that African immigrants are naive to the racism in America. Which was my main fukking point. What was the point in going in circles? This only made you look like an emotional idiot.

Instead of gettting emotional over my post, you should have read it with some context and then you wouldn't have made a fool of yourself. Ignorance? What ignorance? I admit AA's on average are ignorant about what goes on in Africa. Or else we wouldn't have most AA's thinking Africa is that of feed the children. But like I said the AA ignorance gets addressed all the time and those AA's get named "c00ns".

Like I said what doesn't get addressed most of the time is African immigrants looking down on AA's, stereotyping AA's and being oblivious to the struggles AA's have faced.

Notice how my argument has not changed once. Amazing.

 

[Dr. Acula]

All this cultural appropriation stuff is a bit silly imo to be honest. I understand the slight annoyance in seeing a white person for example doing something that a black person has been doing and it being accepted (ala iggy Azelea). However, at some point, everyone needs to just chill out imo (especailly this nonsense and attacking a white girl for wearing braids or cornrows). Ok its corny or whatever but its not the most pressing issues of our time.

 

[Poitier]

All the top black artist were popping in Europe in late 80s.

This is false. I'm from Detroit and House was huge in the 80s/early 90s before it made its way to the UK, Ibiza and the Eastern BLOC.

 

[How Sway?]

lol you know its funny cuz, There are way more brehs on the continent who wear fitted baseball caps and blue than AA's who rock kente cloth and dashikis and kufi's on a daily basis so who is really appropriating who???

 

[How Sway?]

Whether its Eurocentric or ethnocentric it all comes down to nativity.

As for as African Americans having a naive view on Africans. That is true but at least it gets addressed all the time and those AA's being called "c00n". With Africans on the other hand? Hardly.






Compared to Africans Mexicans and other Latinos have a much better understanding of white racism in America than African immigrants. FACT. Prove that I am an idiot. Prove that statement is wrong. So far you and others havent, but instead got all emotional.

Plus didnt you say Africans dont view the struggles of AA's are "deep". lol!

mexicans are opportunists when it comes to their issues...

Plus MANY of them co-mingle with whites

I take back calling you and idiot btw. that wasnt necessary...

 

[Bawon Samedi]

mexicans are opportunists when it comes to their issues...

And who's denying that they are?

My point was that they are not naive to white racism in America. Of course I do not to unite with them. Of course I'm not ignorant of the racism of Mexicans which I have addressed many times on here...

 

[Retired Account]

Become "aware" of what?

Racism in America. They cant relate to being a minority

 

[live it to the limit]

Mane, this thread went left so quick. Thought we we talking about clothes

 

[AFRAM GLORY]

The First Jewish Lie: The Old Testament fabrication that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt — John Kaminski – Darkmoon

You're not a "Israelite" you nutcase and the "Jews" existence in Israel has been completely debunked. So if you want to claim that you're an Israelite then go claim North Yemen which is where "you" Jews are actually from.

The mental illness that some of you guys demonstrate that has you hating anything African is just so, so sad...

"The man got game like a motherfukker" -- Ras Kass

Here's a video that clears up the misconceptions of transatlantic slavery that you Hebrew Israelites and whites are entirely responsible for propagating:

1st off I never said people of the diaspora are Israelites did I? I never met a black israelite in my life. We, the people of the diaspora are Jews by blood, the negus you black devils love to hate. We escaped invasion and settled in muslim dominated areas of west africa, thats a fukking fact. Why you think they were so quick to kick our asses out?

And why lie and tell us we're from north yemen you hamite black devil, you know the truth cheese eyes.

 

[DillaTUDE]

How are Africans fighting against white supremacy in Africa? How are they fighting against the Chinese and other foreign entities who are planting flags all over their countries and buying up land , displacing locals?

They're responding the same way you African-Americans are to cops slaughtering innocent black men in the streets and imprisoning millions of the other blacks in modern day slavery known as the prison industrial complex. I guess one thing can be said for blacks throughout the entire globe is that we're ALL the white man's bytch, huh?

Don't get it twisted, while you African-Americans have to worry about just white Americans, Africans have to worry about EVERYONE from white Americans, to the Chinese, to the Russians and the Arab world as they scramble for our continent and it's precious resources.

So yeah, you might have to "live under racism in a society dominated by whites", but we have the ENTIRE world on our necks preventing that next Patrice Lumumba or Thomas Sankara from emerging. So don't minimize our struggles to bolster yours...

 

[Bawon Samedi]

And just to note I am NOT bashing Africans. I really just want this topic to be discussed instead of hidden in the closet like always. And when this topic is discussed it seems to make a lot of people uncomfortable. But that is what serious topics are for. That is what the root is for.

If I came off as bashing Africans then I apologize I just got heated.