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

[Naijan]

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.

example number 1

 

[Poitier]

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.

Thats the thing, though. Is Africa our business/problems?

 

[J-Nice]

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

It's because alot of people don't respect African American identity. It's okay to take pride in Jamaican culture, Haitian culture, and Trinidadian culture. But African American culture? Nah, that's just "Black culture" that belongs to everyone. Because you know African Americans don't have their own culture.:youserious::notserious:

 

[KOohbt]

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

This is what kills me about Africans who think like that. That cognitive dissonance

 

[Kitsch]

Thats the thing, though. Is Africa our business/problems?

 

[KOohbt]

It's because alot of people don't respect African American identity. It's okay to take pride in Jamaican culture, Haitian culture, and Trinidadian culture. But African American culture? Nah, that's just "Black culture" that belongs to everyone. Because you know African Americans don't have their own culture.:youserious::notserious:

When you got the dopest culture people wanna take it from you. Partially our fault but we're getting better with ownership. Another thing to consider is that we're the only black culture that influences every country on the planet. Jamaica is the only group that can even begin to come close. We're the most visible and we aren't a majority black country like the others. So shyt like this so bound to happen.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Thats the thing, though. Is Africa our business/problems?

To some degree yes but for the most part, no IMO.

 

[Another Man]

example number 1

Example number 1 of what?

What was wrong with what I said? African immigrants come here in hopes of finding a better way of life, but then have the audacity to treat us as inferior even though they're here living off what us and our ancestors built? ....but they consider it appropriation when blacks try to connect to where they descended from as if we're taking advantage of them. If you don't see something wrong with that, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm pretty sure everyone else doesn't give a flying fukk if you're african or african american, we're all black either way.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It's because alot of people don't respect African American identity. It's okay to take pride in Jamaican culture, Haitian culture, and Trinidadian culture. But African American culture? Nah, that's just "Black culture" that belongs to everyone. Because you know African Americans don't have their own culture.:youserious::notserious:

It's because Afram popular culture is so widespread and global that many people don't realize it's influencing them so they think it belongs to them/everyone now because to some degree it's Pop culture but as I said before Aframs have a roots culture and a pop culture.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

When you got the dopest culture people wanna take it from you. Partially our fault but we're getting better with ownership. Another thing to consider is that we're the only black culture that influences every country on the planet. Jamaica is the only group that can even begin to come close. We're the most visible and we aren't a majority black country like the others. So shyt like this so bound to happen.

Truth

 

[IllmaticDelta]

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

shyt is ridiculous with these twitter activists

hashtag appropriation

 

[J-Nice]

When you got the dopest culture people wanna take it from you. Partially our fault but we're getting better with ownership. Another thing to consider is that we're the only black culture that influences every country on the planet. Jamaica is the only group that can even begin to come close. We're the most visible and we aren't a majority black country like the others. So shyt like this so bound to happen.

True. Another aspect of this shyt is that we don't own our image and are the least to profit off of the shyt we make. It's like being the popular kids at school and everyone wants to be the one to sit at the popular kids lunch table. That's how it is with African Americans and the rest of the diaspora.

It's because Afram popular culture is so widespread and global that many people don't realize it's influencing them so think it belongs to them/everyone now because to some degree it's Pop culture but as I said before Aframs have a roots culture and a pop culture.

Gotta slightly disagree here. People know it's our shyt, they just don't give a fukk about disrespecting us.

 

[Kitsch]

 

[KOohbt]

Thats the thing, though. Is Africa our business/problems?

A different question is why don't Africans take advantage of our $1.1 trilly in spending power.

 

[BigMan]

so are Somalis black ?