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

[Originalman]

All that shyt she was talking and she isn't even about that life

Exactly. Loud mouth heffa ain't even got a African boyfriend. Talked all that ignorant shyt and couldn't even tell it was her people in the picture. Such a dumb ass.

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

…I’m serving morning tea.

Zipporah is the blogger that wrote that article called “African Americans stop Appropriating African Clothing and Culture.”

This is the photo that drove her to write that stupid blog post. This tweet was written by her on the 1st and her blog was posted on the 3rd. The funny thing about this picture is….everyone in this picture in African clothing is African Continental….not “African American”…lmao.

Young Paris (Milandou Badila) is a world famous musician from the DR Congo.

Ntangou Badila is a famous artist from the DR Congo.

Kwabena Samuel Nana Ofosu-Ware is a world renowned fashion designer from Ghana.

This “reporter” saw a picture taken in Brooklyn and assumed everyone there was born and raised in america…

What’s “Not Cool” is her divisive tactics against African people. You see we are such One People that she couldn’t even tell the difference by sight.

Before I go…let me be petty. I find it funny that she ONLY clings to “her African culture” when she wants to shame other Africans. While her Facebook is filled with pictures of her white boyfriend and her many trips to Asia. Her food blog is filled with nothing but Asian and British foods that she tries to make for her white boyfriend. Maybe if she spent less time wishing she was Chinese and serving her white man she would have known who these three famous, talented and very CHARITABLE Africans were.

Hope yall enjoyed your morning tea.

Have a great day Africans! All Africans! Diaspora and Continental! We are One People! Touch one, Touch all!

Uhuru!

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Gazi

real ass nikka, even if he's catching dikk

these NBWs have some fukking nerve

 

[Poitier]

it's one person

I've seen at least a few hundred.

 

[Naijan]

I've seen at least a few hundred.

That's still out of a billion, argument can go on forever, it's up to you if you're gonna condemn all Africans because of one.
Also not all Africans think a like that's why it's dumb when someone compares a whole continent towards one ethnic group. She did the same thing she just accuse AA of doing by saying "African culture" as if Africa is all the same. Either way you put it she's dumb and doesn't know why African American at least trying to get closer to a culture in Africa is not appropriating. I would rather African Americans wear certain African clothing than making fun of it.

 

[Neil Tyson]

Damn I guess I can't wear daishikis.

 

[Poitier]

That's still out of a billion, argument can go on forever, it's up to you if you're gonna condemn all Africans because of one.

who said all?

 

[Naijan]

who said all?

Not saying you, but people on here would say why don't africans like us or don't wants us when it's pretty obvious not everyone is like that

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Are you Nigerian?

That's still out of a billion, argument can go on forever, it's up to you if you're gonna condemn all Africans because of one.

True but Poitier is right that the sentiment seems to be more common than we/I thought, at least I notice it more on the internet when I see some random shade out of nowhere and it be having me like

Also not all Africans think a like that's why it's dumb when someone compares a whole continent towards one ethnic group. She did the same thing she just accuse AA of doing by saying "African culture" as if Africa is all the same. Either way you put it she's dumb and doesn't know why African American at least trying to get closer to a culture in Africa is not appropriating. I would rather African Americans wear certain African clothing than making fun of it.

I agree

 

[Poitier]

True but Poitier is right that the sentiment seems to be more common that we/I thought, at least I notice it more on the internet when I see some random shade out of nowhere and it be having me like

I notice some Africans pull the "you aren't African" schtick especially when an African American disagrees with them.

For example,

This African girls said this on Twitter:



To which this African American girl said this:












I think her rebuttal is a sound argument, but apparently another African girl (who has 10,000 followers) jumps in and attacks her identity:






So the African American girl schools her:










So now African Americans are not African and can't speak on Africa, according to this user And this is a single instance of a few attacks of Black Americans THAT I SAW JUST TODAY Are all Africans like this? No. Is anti Black American mentality a real thing? Yes

Ironically this same user uses AAVE and talks about Black American culture and uses out memes with no fukks given

 

[BigMan]

I dont see why that chick even had to insert her self in the conversation. That whole stupid argument could have been avoided

 

[Another Man]

If they wanna shyt on us, why don't they leave and take their asses back to Africa and quit benefiting from our ways of life since they wanna be so fukking self righteous This country was built on the backs of OUR ancestors, and they wanna come here and live it up yet look down their noses on us for not being directly from Africa? They can fukking leave then.

 

[J-Nice]

I notice some Africans pull the "you aren't African" schtick especially when an African American disagrees with them.

For example,

This African girls said this on Twitter:



To which this African American girl said this:












I think her rebuttal is a sound argument, but apparently another African girl (who has 10,000 followers) jumps in and attacks her identity:






So the African American girl schools her:










So now African Americans are not African and can't speak on Africa, according to this user And this is a single instance of a few attacks of Black Americans THAT I SAW JUST TODAY Are all Africans like this? No. Is anti Black American mentality a real thing? Yes

Ironically this same user uses AAVE and talks about Black American culture and uses out memes with no fukks given

Happy as hell to make gains off the backs of African Americans though....Now it's "Blackexcellence"

shyt is ridiculous with these twitter activists

 

[Poitier]

@IllmaticDelta when you gone make that site documenting African American ethnic culture and history?

 

[Poitier]

Happy as hell to make gains off the backs of African Americans though....Now it's "Blackexcellence"

shyt is ridiculous with these twitter activists

The fact that they are equating "economic rape" to colonialism which had repercussions far beyond economics is insane to me


But even if you don't agree, what kind of shyt is it to attack someones identity (especially another Black person) because you can't come up with a proper response

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I notice some Africans pull the "you aren't African" schtick especially when an African American disagrees with them.

For example,

One thing I'll say about that is I don't believe in talking about other peoples (non-Aframs) business/problems unless someone of that ethnicity is talking to me personally about it.

So now African Americans are not African and can't speak on Africa, according to this user And this is a single instance of a few attacks of Black Americans THAT I SAW JUST TODAY Are all Africans like this? No. Is anti Black American mentality a real thing? Yes

Ironically this same user uses AAVE and talks about Black American culture and uses out memes with no fukks given

This is where the hypocrisy comes in though