I'm sure your social worker can fill you in when you make that move from the Maple leaf to the Great Melting pot......or you can watch the many infomercials with the babies covered in flies and with swollen stomachs....show me the healthcare, "donations", and education system you control, to where black immigrants have to come to you to get shyt done
. You can't make this shyt up with these clowns.
Nah.....just pointing out the negative aspects of their culture just like you were highlighting and emulating the negative aspects of ours......Just 2 posts up you was pan-african, now you're dissing Africans
You live in Canada....that's why a said Maple Leaf LOL! Remember read for comprehension!You do realize Im not African right? Try something relevant to me, but nice to see how you view Africans Mr Pan-Africa. Mr. African Roots
. Good Night.
...........but this is my only account.......I joined Friday.......,LMAO!!! You are schizo!!shyts getting old now.
I see you actually made an account just to address me. Its either you to shook to address me on your real account or you're extra salty. Either way
He's right though. This isn't even a diss on Africans but Aframs rarely if ever appropriate ethnocultural related things from anyone else, Africans included. You will see some very afro centric Aframs rock african attire every now and then but that's where it ends. Fela had even spoke on some of this
“It was incredible how my head was turned,” Kuti told the New York Times in 1987. “Everything fell into place. For the first time, I saw the essence of blackism. It’s crazy; in the States people think the black power movement drew inspiration from Africa. All these Americans come over here looking for awareness, they don’t realize they’re the ones who’ve got it over there. We were even ashamed to go around in national dress until we saw pictures of blacks wearing dashikis on 125th street.”
>Fela Kuti and traditional African religion
As I said before, you're more likely to see modern Afram ethnocultural influences on Africans than the other way around.
Caption: “My body is not a product on the shelf of your market” – “Sexo e as negas doesn’t represent me” – Unipalmares students and black women activists repudiate the “Sexo e as negas” program created by Miguel Falabella
Note from BW of Brazil: I must say that after reading the news last week I was little disgusted and disappointed. About what, you ask? Well, for the past few weeks, this blog has featured a number of articles detailing the controversy surrounding the new television series Sexo e as negas on Brazil’s most dominant TV network, Rede Globo. Black women across the country have repudiated the show and to stomp out the resistance, Globo is now resorting to the second step in its manipulation program: to deflect accusations of racism, well-known Afro-Brazilians are publicly announcing their support of the show. After all, if there are blacks who support the show, it can’t possibly be racist, right? Since then, a number of prominent black public have stepped forward and done just that. Yesterday on the blog you saw Grammy-nominated musician Carlinhos Brown voice his support for the show on a top (Globo) talk show. There have been others as well who will be featured in an upcoming post. And then there was the nation’s only predominantly black college opening its doors to the show’s creator.
Sexo e as negas creator Miguel Falabella announced last week that Faculdade Zumbi dos Palmares contacted him to participate in its annual Troféu Raça Negra award ceremony. It’s not clear exactly what this meant. The Troféu Raça Negra awards, something like the American Essence Awards or NAACP Awards (although it bills itself as the “Black Oscars”), presents awards to Afro-Brazilians of highlight in the year or those who contribute to the Afro-Brazilian cause. Was Falabella to receive an award? Present an award? Or have some sort of debate about race in the media? It’s still not clear. In my view, it doesn’t matter. How does the nation’s only predominantly black college whose aim is to address exclusion and racial inequality invite someone who many in the black community see as selling a highly racist, stereotypical representation of the black population to a wide audience? What is the message here? A white director can present the black population in any way that he chooses and the black population should still be thankful for this? Not feeling this action AT ALL!! And as it turns out, students at the college are not feeling it either!
NO PRIZES FOR FALABELLA
Coletivo Mulheres Negras de Joinville, Santa Catarina (Black Women’s Collective of Joinville, Santa Catarina) also repudiates ‘Sexo e as negas’
I received this note of repudiation from Flávio, showing that the series Sexo e as negascontinues to provoke things to say: a college wants to reward Miguel Falabella.
Pretas Simoa, black women’s group from Cariri, Ceará
First of all, a little context. The Zumbi dos Palmares College is one of the arms of the Movimento Negro (black movement). It was born to be a “black university”, inspired by the Americans. Located in São Paulo, currently about 97% of its students are negrxs(black men and women). It is the only one in Latin America with this profile.
Maisa, Pedagogy student in Salvador, Bahia
The Faculdade Zumbi (Zumbi College) annually hands out the Troféu Raça Negra, rewarding black researchers and militants. This year one of the guests for the awards is the author and actor Miguel Falabella. The justification for his prize is that the institution wants to establish a dialogue with him about racial issues. Much of the Movimento Negro believes that Zumbi College is not adequate space to promote this dialogue.
Below is the letter of repudiation from the Pedagogy department (all pictures in this post were taken from the National Boycott page on Facebook, which already has almost 31,000 likes):
“The students and teachers of Pedagogy of Zumbi dos Palmares College 2014, collectively organized and gathered on the date of September 22, 2014, to formalize a vehement repudiation of the invite made by the directors of Zumbi dos Palmares College to the actor and director Miguel Falabella. As most of our group is formed by black women, we understand that the show Sex e as negas re-enforce racist stereotypes that relegate black women to the role of sexual object and due to this, we do not feel represented in, but to the contrary, disrespected.
Eliane, Pedagogue
We emphasize that the understanding of black woman transmitted by the production goes against all the guiding principles of affirmative action policies won by the struggle of the Movimento Negro (Black Movement) in Brazil, these principles that address reparation, recognition and appreciation of the black population. We are black and non-black men and women in the quest for a just, fair and equal education and therefore defend our right to make use of these conquests and condemn and punish any act of racism.
Paula, Pedagogy student in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
This ideology acts as a constructing mechanism of distorted images of the black population, linking different Eurocentric symbolic elements to justify and validate the ranking among humans. Racism seeps into all spaces, echoing ideas that mutilate the possibilities of existence, building lives incarcerated within a subaltern survival. For the realization of this process, numerous everyday actions densifies stereotypes, setting pre-established destinations for black children, black women and black men.
Nathalia, Social Sciences student at UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina)
Racist TV productions need not be debated, but punished in an exemplary manner conforming to the Brazilian Federal Constitution. Our role as educators is to denounce the explicit racism in this and other negative works to the construction of an egalitarian education. Our comprehension of education understands that we have the institutional duty to echo the voices of those who are rarely heard and represented in our society, and not bringing visibility and awareness to public figures that disqualify our banners of struggle.
There are already 117 complaints against ‘Sexo e as negas’
We strengthen the right to respect and legitimate representation of black actors and actresses, of black men and women in movements of struggle and resistance as workers, students, mothers, daughters, teachers, lawyers, administrators and advertisers among others. We finalize by demanding respect!”
Source: Escreva Lola Escreva
The natural hair movement is making a resurgence across the continent.
Frohawk
Can vary from a traditional mohawk shape to a more assymetrical style by shaving one side of the head, leaving afro to grow on the other.
Puffs
This simple do involves tying afro hair into small or large 'puffs' using elastic bands. Infinite variations from the cute to the corporate.
Dreadlocks
"It's a very easy style to maintain so you can understand the appeal of it. Once you have dreadlocks form, there's not much you have to do," says blogger Nyachomba Kariuki.
Updo
By pinning up hair in various patterns and styles the 'updo' can range from the simple to a modern work of art.
Twist/Braid Out
Achieved by twisting hair into little braids before bed. In the morning, release the braids and twists, and the hair takes on the shape of the braid.
Puffs, cornrows, dreadlocks and afros: whatever the style, natural hair is enjoying a resurgence across Africa according to beauty bloggers in Nairobi and Dakar.
"Employers are now more accepting of natural hair," says Nairobi-based natural hair blogger Nyachomba Kariuki (black girl long hair).
According to Kariuki, just a few years ago, if a woman walked into her office with natural hair "people would ask you, 'Why haven't you done your hair? Why is your hair like that? What are you trying to say?,'" she says.
These days, it is becoming almost as accepted in the office as it is at a club on a Saturday night.
Today she estimates that one in five people walking down Nairobi's streets are sporting dreadlocks.
"All sorts of professionals have come out with natural hair. It's not so much viewed as a radical thing. You can just be a normal person and have natural hair.
"You can be an accountant or an investment banker with natural hair."
Shaved heads
The most recent natural hair movement, which is urging women to forgo relaxers and chemicals and embrace natural and curly coifs, originated in the United States, and inspiration still flows to Kenya via African American celebrities, says Kariuki.
"I actually have quite a drastic haircut, longer at the front and shorter on the sides," she says.
"Very, very many ladies in Nairobi are shaving the sides of their heads, and that's also influenced by singers such as Rihanna. It translates here as well."
On the other side of the continent, Dakar-based beauty blogger (thesim-plelifeofmg) and afro-wearing writer Marie Grace Agboton agrees that the revitalised afro movement began in the US but that many of her fellow Dakarois have started to ride the growing wave of natural hair.
"It started small," she says of the trend, "but now we see more and more women wearing afros or who have stopped straightening their hair in the streets of Dakar."
Agboton is a member of N'Happy Galsen, which organises the Rencontre Afro de Dakar for women who are just starting to grow out their hair.
They swap tips on natural hair care products and procedures.
At their September gathering, about two dozen women convened to celebrate and chat about their decisions to go natural.
Why straighten my hair
Maguette Geuye, a journalist, says she has always been a feminist, and she sees wearing her hair in an afro as a natural extension of that mindset.
"I am African, why straighten my hair? I keep my hair as it is. People like me as I am. I am a woman [...]and I won't copy another woman to be accepted by a man," she says.
Owners of local shops and salons in Dakar say they have seen an increase in women wearing their hair in natural styles.
"Without a doubt, it is becoming more popular," says Fatou Ndeye, a salesperson at Les Hairoïnes, a shop in Dakar that sells hair products.
"People have more of a tendency right now to make a transition to natural. So natural products are a lot more popular and sell a lot more."
At the Rencontre Afro de Dakar, the woman cluster together, eagerly sharing stories about when they decided to go the way of the fro and complimenting each others' coifs.
After all, they say, working hard to support each other in this movement is only natural.
What do you identify as?Black Population in England: Mostly Africans and Carribeans. Identify as black. Thugs, criminals, etc. They take on the ideology of "being black"
Black Population in Canada: Mostly Africans and Carribeans. Identify as black. Thugs, criminals, etc. They take on the ideology of "being black"
You'll notice the ones who stick close to African or Caribbean identity will not fall into this trap. The minute they think they're black and start identifying with Black Americans its a wrap
And whose fault is thatBlack Population in England: Mostly Africans and Carribeans. Identify as black. Thugs, criminals, etc. They take on the ideology of "being black"
Black Population in Canada: Mostly Africans and Carribeans. Identify as black. Thugs, criminals, etc. They take on the ideology of "being black"
You'll notice the ones who stick close to African or Caribbean identity will not fall into this trap. The minute they think they're black and start identifying with Black Americans its a wrap
