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

[K.O.N.Y]

You do realize that Bob Marley biggest influences were African Americans groups, especially Curtis Mayfield's group. Right? Mayfield was literally Marley's biggest musical influence. There was even a Jamaican tribute album for made for Curtis Mayfield after his death.

"... Bob Marley was born of mixed heritage - his father a Jamaican born white man of British nationality and his mother a black Jamaican - Marley was ostracized as a child and struggled to come to terms with the duality of his racial identity. His conversion to the Rastafarian religion, which comes from the original forms of Christianity and Judaism from Egypt and Ethiopia, and includes an "Ital" diet prohibiting the consumption of pork, alcohol, coffee, medicines and all foods containing preservatives and additives, helped him find truth in a world filled with injustice and racism.

Influenced by popular African American groups like Curtis Mayfield's "The Impressions," Bob Marley joined with childhood friends to form The Wailers. The group dressed in matching suits and maintained the clean-cut look reminiscent of Motown groups of that era. After becoming a Rastafarian and reforming the group years later as "Bob Marley and The Wailers" Marley began to emerge as a prophetic musician promoting peace and higher consciousness... ."

Bob Marley - Essay - Collegestudent09

People Get Ready - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"... .Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Staple Singers, Rod Stewart, Steppenwolf, Bob Marley, Elton John, Herbie Hancock, UB40, The Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Public Enemy and Ice-T, are just a few of the diverse range of musicians to have acknowledged Mayfield's considerable musical talents and recorded his songs... ."

A modest man of great musical talent and sensitivity - World Socialist Web Site

bob

Curtis

 

[Samori Toure]

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

nikkas already have the carfax on all the appropriation Africans do as it pertains to black American culture in this thread. And your talking to someone from New York city- the biggest place where Africans,black americans and caribbeans congregate on earth. Nothing these cats can tell me about this shyt real talk

the africans in new york city mostly are already americanized, africans back home don't play that

AA music is more than rap music. So they dont play Michael Jackson , Stevie Wonder , Earth wind and fire, etc etc?

ok

nikka do people in my generation look like we're 55 to you?

maybe my dad but as of now, nope

You do realize that Bob Marley biggest influences were African Americans groups, especially Curtis Mayfield's group. Right? Mayfield was literally Marley's biggest musical influence. There was even a Jamaican tribute album for made for Curtis Mayfield after his death.

"... Bob Marley was born of mixed heritage - his father a Jamaican born white man of British nationality and his mother a black Jamaican - Marley was ostracized as a child and struggled to come to terms with the duality of his racial identity. His conversion to the Rastafarian religion, which comes from the original forms of Christianity and Judaism from Egypt and Ethiopia, and includes an "Ital" diet prohibiting the consumption of pork, alcohol, coffee, medicines and all foods containing preservatives and additives, helped him find truth in a world filled with injustice and racism.

Influenced by popular African American groups like Curtis Mayfield's "The Impressions," Bob Marley joined with childhood friends to form The Wailers. The group dressed in matching suits and maintained the clean-cut look reminiscent of Motown groups of that era. After becoming a Rastafarian and reforming the group years later as "Bob Marley and The Wailers" Marley began to emerge as a prophetic musician promoting peace and higher consciousness... ."

Bob Marley - Essay - Collegestudent09

People Get Ready - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"... .Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Staple Singers, Rod Stewart, Steppenwolf, Bob Marley, Elton John, Herbie Hancock, UB40, The Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Public Enemy and Ice-T, are just a few of the diverse range of musicians to have acknowledged Mayfield's considerable musical talents and recorded his songs... ."

A modest man of great musical talent and sensitivity - World Socialist Web Site

marley is from the caribbeans, he's most likely going to catch wind of that no matter what seeing as america is right there

 

[K.O.N.Y]

the africans in new york city mostly are already americanized, africans back home don't play that

nikka do people in my generation look like we're 55 to you?

maybe my dad but as of now, nope
marley is from the caribbeans, he's most likely going to catch wind of that no matter what seeing as america is right there

what about Fela Kuti

 

[K.O.N.Y]

So what? AA's of all ages listen to soul music. You cant leave an AA barbecue/family reunion without hearing Frankie Beverly's "joy and pain" atleast once

Anyway , i think that Michael Jackson himself is more popular amongst Africans than any African entertainer ever

bolded is factz

And as far as bbqs go

 

[Lost1]

Skin bleaching is very popular amongst nigerians.

Nigerians come in various skin tones even without any kind of bleaching. None of those women looked like they had bleached.

 

[Lost1]

Michael Jackson was not that popular but maybe you mean in Liberia not all of Africa

In fact James Brown or Lionel Richie probably had way more fans in Africa than mj

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

So what? AA's of all ages listen to soul music. You cant leave an AA barbecue/family reunion without hearing Frankie Beverly's "joy and pain" atleast once

Anyway , i think that Michael Jackson himself is more popular amongst Africans than any African entertainer ever

breh i wasn't talking about AAs i meant africans

 

[Kitsch]

Michael Jackson was not that popular but maybe you mean in Liberia not all of Africa

In fact James Brown or Lionel Richie probably had way more fans in Africa than mj

Stop it.

 

[Lost1]

QUOTE ="JodyMan7, post: 14456280, member: 25840" Skin bleaching is very popular amongst nigerians.[ QUOTE ]
Besides , most nigerian women dont look like the women above

most look like the chick from


There arent many tribes like the igbo. Vast majoirty are midnight skinned.

I think the igbo may have "other" blood in their veins from down the line.

No one has shown the Igbo tohave any non-african ancestry

One of those women (Agbani Darego) is not igbo and the person in the first pic might not be either

Since you're saying what the skin tones of the people there are have u been to that country?

 

[Biscayne]

Apparently our culture is only prominent and ok to steal because we live in America. Its okay for Lupita to play an African American slave and a Nigerian to play MLK but we can't wear traditional African garb





And if simply living in America makes your culture visible then why isn't Asian, Arab and Hispanic American culture the dominant culture for those races

/THREAD!

I'm Haitian(as you all know) but what you say is true. You should Tweet that to some of those Africans on Twitter you linked.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Stop it.

son who are you trying to quote right now

 

[Lost1]

Stop it.

How many Africans older or younger do you know of that really know his music?

At most they might know thriller or bilie Jean or one other song but that's usually about it

 

[Kitsch]

How many Africans older or younger do you know of that really know his music?

At most they might know thriller or bilie Jean but that's about it

That's more than the average African would know of the other names mentioned. I was at a Nigerian party hours ago (the picture is in this thread) and Michael Jackson's music was being played.

 

[Biscayne]

Look at how she backtracks.

Even the term "DEADASS" is Afro-American slangology and ebonics. We Black foreigners just need to show respect.