SupaHotIce
All Star
That might be the dumbest shyt I've read all year
Are Africans and people of African descent who aren't AA black?
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Lewis Black
Superstar
Right.
Fortunately most of AAs don't believe we're the only black people on earth. The nikkas in OP's discord, apparently were on some other shyt that night.
Lewis Black
Superstar
Right.
Fortunately most of AAs don't believe we're the only black people on earth. The nikkas in OP's discord, apparently were on some other shyt that night.
I don't even wanna link to that thread lol
ChiefQueen
HBIC
And my father is still black
You are mixed. Your parents are from two different ethnic groups, they married and then they made you. Bye.
Et tu brute
My argument was in agreement with what @Daniel Day Lewis said it's related to Africans who have immigrated to the US and get grouped in as BLACK AA's when they are clearly not
AA's been through slavery and oppression jim crow segregation basically that stigma of being related to former slaves still exists in the american society
A BLACK AMERICAN gets differently treated than let's say an immigrated African even though they also get discriminated there still is a strong distinction
Imma leave this fitting quote for further preciseness of my argument
"Perhaps the most famous example of “African passing” is the infamous anecdote of former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. A student in 1960s U.S., Annan had traveled to the Jim Crow South. He needed a haircut, but was told by a racist white barber: “I do not cut ****** hair.” Annan, who is Ghanaian, responded: “I am not a ******, I am an African.” In doing this, Annan did not challenge the degradation pre-assigned to him by virtue of his skin color, and accepted the premise that there is something inherently pathological about American blackness to which black people from Africa are impervious"
AA's been through slavery and oppression jim crow segregation basically that stigma of being related to former slaves still exists in the american society
A BLACK AMERICAN gets differently treated than let's say an immigrated African even though they also get discriminated there still is a strong distinction
Imma leave this fitting quote for further preciseness of my argument
"Perhaps the most famous example of “African passing” is the infamous anecdote of former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. A student in 1960s U.S., Annan had traveled to the Jim Crow South. He needed a haircut, but was told by a racist white barber: “I do not cut ****** hair.” Annan, who is Ghanaian, responded: “I am not a ******, I am an African.” In doing this, Annan did not challenge the degradation pre-assigned to him by virtue of his skin color, and accepted the premise that there is something inherently pathological about American blackness to which black people from Africa are impervious"
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A lot of African Americans don't even identify themselves as African American.....they use Black as the ethnic term.
A lot of the responses in here are simplifying it a bit.
they made that point last night but can't you say the same for black people in Europe. They use the term black as an ethnic term especially in France and england.
This is what I mean. There is a difference.My argument was in agreement with what @Daniel Day Lewis said it's related to Africans who have immigrated to the US and get grouped in as BLACK AA's when they are clearly not
AA's been through slavery and oppression jim crow segregation basically that stigma of being former slaves still exists in the american society
A BLACK AMERICAN gets differently treated than let's say an immigrated African even though they also get discriminated there still is a strong distinction
Imma leave this fitting quote for further preciseness of my argument
"Perhaps the most famous example of “African passing” is the infamous anecdote of former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. A student in 1960s U.S., Annan had traveled to the Jim Crow South. He needed a haircut, but was told by a racist white barber: “I do not cut ****** hair.” Annan, who is Ghanaian, responded: “I am not a ******, I am an African.” In doing this, Annan did not challenge the degradation pre-assigned to him by virtue of his skin color, and accepted the premise that there is something inherently pathological about American blackness to which black people from Africa are impervious"
Not really, those in Europe (from what I've seen) usually identify themselves by their mother country.. and obviously Negropeans don't have a shared ancestral history coming from different parts of the diaspora so it isn't in an ethnic sense when they mention color.
The only other groups who do something similar are in Latin/Hispanic America.
Mojo Jojo Morpheus
Dap Distributor
I mean, that's open to interpretation.
You could take that to mean Kofi is saying "I'm not like those ******s over there, I'm different."
ORRRR
You could take it to mean he was saying "I do not accept your derogatory label of people with Black skin and rather affirm my own ethnic identifier."
I see you and Gragra have opted for the former, less charitable interpretation.
Dushane Hill
Superstar
OP dumb as shyt
Concerning VIolence
Decolonizer
Hoodoo Child
The Urban Legend
Black is the race,but every person who is classified as Black" in this country are not African American. If you're a direct descendant of chattel slavery (DoCS) in this country,you ARE African American. Simple
For Example: A 1st generation black immigrant CANNOT be classified as AA in this land. Nigerian Americans,Jamaican Americans, Somali Americans, Haitian Americans, Ghanaian Americans CANNOT be African Americans.
For Example: A 1st generation black immigrant CANNOT be classified as AA in this land. Nigerian Americans,Jamaican Americans, Somali Americans, Haitian Americans, Ghanaian Americans CANNOT be African Americans.