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

[Samori Toure]

you're not getting it

I rarely read of them making any statements at all.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Many Africans have a very "European" view of African-Americans. Nigerians will treat us like shyt with a big toothy grin while with that same grim welcome the white man into some sort of corrupt business dealing that will sell out their own people. Realistically we should be linking up with these African nations, especially rapidly developing ones like Nigeria, but they view us as scum. Yeah, you aren't going to see this from people of Nigerian descent who were born here, but their parents or those that come over to live/visit/do business have a marked disdain for us.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Many Africans have a very "European" view of African-Americans. Nigerians will treat us like shyt with a big toothy grin while with that same grim welcome the white man into some sort of corrupt business dealing that will sell out their own people. Realistically we should be linking up with these African nations, especially rapidly developing ones like Nigeria, but they view us as scum. Yeah, you aren't going to see this from people of Nigerian descent who were born here, but their parents or those that come over to live/visit/do business have a marked disdain for us.

 

[DabbinSauce]

Once again, what are Africans in America jealous of AA about? list these things.

And naijaworld? That's the best you could do? so every African is Nigerian to you huh? See, I'm not even sure if you're equip enough to go on a back and fourth.

I ain't even gon get filthy on you, man.
Because Lord Knows I Can

May Africa be with you, my brother

 

[SelfIndulgent]

Subsaharan Africans wouldn't even be able to live in America if it wasn't for Black Americans

They'd still be in their impoverished 3rd world shytholes

Subsaharan Africans owe American Blacks their LIVES for being able to leach off of black Americans hard work

 

[Red Shield]

I wrote "If you notice all of the other White Countries have pretty much lost all of their colonies and now they have to band together in that European Union to keep the rest of what they have." So they still have a few things, but for the most part they are done and in decline just like Rome and Greece ended up being. The World Wars took a lot our of the European Countries.

And please don't believe that the USA is in decline. The USA was built on the backs of Black people and they are looking at the Africans again.

I know what you wrote breh and like I said you have African countries paying in to the French bank.

I agree with you about Europe being done. WW1 and WW2 burned through their warrior seed crop. Sometimes i wonder what the world would look like if WW1 never happened

Because keeping it 100% the whites were damn near unstoppable until WW1. Read some of the WN literature from before WW1



Don't believe the USA is in decline?
You don't even need to pay close attention anymore, to see that the USA is in imperial decline. If you would like me to list some reasons, I will. The USA will try some shyt, but ultimately won't succeed.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

I bet these koons got nothing to say about cacs dressed in traditonal African garb.

tbf, they hustled that white man out of 10k to wear that bullshyt and feel like hes doing something (monarchy been over with). they laughed to the bank, white man gets to go home show his friends live vicariously as tho he was a conquistador, really hes just a business analyst for amex.

 

[Northern Son]

So apparently on Twitter today, Africans are accusing African Americans of stealing their culture and they don't see the irony in it


A few tweets I pulled up:









Excuse me,

but isn't House music big in South Africa? Don't they have Nollywood films about Tupac? Isn't Afrobeats heavily influence by rap? Isn't there soul food restaurants in Kenya? Don't kids in Johanessburg and Cape Town dress like Black urban youth?

Is this a legitimate argument? Am I tripping?




This is why we need to reaffirm African American identity. They think they can leech off our culture then have their own culture as some exclusive culture that makes them "unique" @K.O.N.Y @KidStranglehold @IllmaticDelta @Ed MOTHEREFFING G @kayslay

I don't think twitter is the most valid source for what Africans generally think, not anymore than it is for AA's, and you know a solid amount of black Americans on twitter are new blacks/PAWG chasers/self hating idiots.

I don't know a single person who thinks like this or cares about this shyt, and I know a fukkload of Africans (USA, UK, Canada, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Australia, Nigerians, Ghanaians, Ugandans, Eritreans, South Africa, even fukking Norway).

Blatant bait/fake outrage thread over imaginary animosity. You're better than this, definitely a lot smarter than this.

 

[Northern Son]

This is really not a "thing", trust me

@Poitier You've been encouraging division among blacks, or at least a stark divide between Af-Ams and the rest of the black race, and I think you just posted this to validate your narrative (Africans, Caribbeans and Latin Blacks are jealous of and contemptuous of African Americans and antagonize innocent African Americans any chance they get).

Nah, you are the dumb one. Your thread title said "Africans accuse AAs". Change it then, because those tweets do not represent me.

Trust me on this, Africans at home do not think about AAs like that, very far from it.

I can't speak for every region of Africa (West, Central for example), but having been to a few African countries, this is definitely the case in my experience. A couple of young (as in high school aged and younger) kids flippantly mention mainstream African American recording artists here and there, but that's about it. I didn't have a single conversation about black Americans in Africa ever. Jamaican music and local African shyt is more popular there and footballers are WAY more popular/talked about than NBA/NFL teams and players.

 

[Poitier]

This is like four people on twitter. .

I can pull up 100s of tweets

This is really not a "thing", trust me

@Poitier You've been encouraging division among blacks, or at least a stark divide between Af-Ams and the rest of the black race

There was never unity and why does African Americans affirm their ethnic identity make you uncomfortable?

 

[World'sFinest]

It's scary how many black dudes on thecoli view Africa like the cacs, as if it's a homogenous state, shyt is sad brehs, (in my country alone there are many black cultures). And Simphiwe Dana is right, we care to know more about AA issues than vice versa.(Speaking as a South African)

 

[Northern Son]

I can pull up 100s of tweets



There was never unity and why does African Americans affirm their ethnic identity make you uncomfortable?

It doesn't , I completely encourage that. Promoting a distrust in Africans, Caribbeans and Latin blacks makes me uncomfortable.

You can maintain your identity and still maintain a basic comradery with other blacks.

 

[NZA]

dont take twitter too seriously. there is always going to be an undercurrent of problems between any group, but twitter amplifies it due to the amount of c00ns and beginner level "intersectionality" experts finally getting a platform to show out.

 

[Poitier]

Promoting a distrust in Africans, Caribbeans and Latin blacks makes me uncomfortable.

Blame the @bdizzle @Yup @LadySimone of the world

 

[humble Hermit]

The "Root" doesn't have any love for the Motherland?
I understand the premises of the thread but I don't get the insults. A few under-educated people on twitter have conflicting opinions about a group of people, doesn't warrant trolling and senseless division IMO. Why must we stay distracted.