So because black immigrants don't subscribe to your narrow point of view, it's fukk us all?
Whatever. Tariq has literally spent the past 6 months disparaging black immigrants and speaking very derisively in generalities. It's disgusting. The level of anti-african rhetoric from is followers is even more apalling. Nothing but the same anti-african animosity many black Americans did to Africans back in grade school. I know most black ADOS will claim "teasing" and encourage us to get over it but it doesn't work that way. Abuse is abuse, and has severe psychological ramifications.
As an adult I don't have much anger about it anymore as I've understood that in a system of white supremacy, anti anfrican rhetoric is the norm, so Tariq like I are only victims. However Tariq has a platform and instead of helping unite black people with positive thinking he decides to spew anti-immigrant nativist garbage designed to file up already biased and prejudiced followers. He's clearly using the Trump strategy but the black version. If black Americans go down this road, they'll soon find themselves unwelcome in Africa similarly to how white Americans are viewed abroad.
He did it for one year and it was a fukking comedy award.
Nothing but hateful vitriol toward African immigrants though
Here's what's funny. You typed all this just to prove you know very little about surviving while black in this country. It's like moving to a place with West Nile and arguing when people tell you to handle that standing water. It would be cool if the mosquitoes were restricted to your yard, but they're not and we all have to deal with the consequences of your negligence.
Lacking political and economic power, we utilize various forms of social pressure/ public shaming. We may use the pulpit or the dozens ("comedy") to do so. We ostracize our c00ns loudly and in public so we all know who to avoid. Maybe it's not clear to you, but in a white country, c00ns can bring and have brought the death squads to our very doors.
Children raised in ADOS environments practice these forms of social control.
Because your parents brought you to such an environment, you were effected.
Because they didn't socialize with ADOS to the point of learning our culture (beyond collard greens and Marvin Gaye or whatever),
they gave you no context. This is the information they neglected to gather for you.
The ability to remain composed during the Dozens is considered a hallmark of virtue among many African Americans. Two sociologists write, "In the deepest sense, the essence of the dozens lies not in the insults but in the response of the victim.
To take umbrage is to be considered an infantile response. Maturity and sophistication bring the capability to suffer the vile talk with aplomb at least, and, hopefully, with grace and wit."
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The Dozens - Wikipedia
Instead of figuring the shyt out,
which is what people normally do when they come and plop themselves in someone's living space, you (and the majority of black immigrants) reacted like this.
Although folklorists have observed some white adolescent boys engaging in a form of the Dozens, a black psychologist wrote in 1970[
who?] that
white psychologists' deconstruction of the apparent hostility in the Dozens is misunderstood because the white psychologists take the insults literally (Lefever). John Leland uses the example of boxer
Muhammad Ali, who often used the Dozens format in banter with reporters, either confusing or angering them when he did. (Leland, p. 182)
Thus, your sad story proves the points of both Tariq and
@Gmoney. You really don't understand us, our position, or the position we carved out for you. But you've decided to move to our block and keep mad standing water around, ie, encourage the proliferation of mosquitoes who will endanger our welfare, c00ns. We're doing a neighborhood clean up bc we all know where this leads, whereas you, New Guy, is
obnoxiously wrong and loud and
will get us all killed.
Perhaps we've had to move to what you call "hatred and vitriol", ie calling out the c00ns clearly and explicitly, bc we've tried the gentle way and it didn't work. Those kids, mean as you think they were, were trying to integrate you into our society and pass on the tools we learned centuries ago. There was nothing "narrow" about Gmoney's view, it's widely shared and understood. Yall come here, learn our slang and our music, and think you know everything about us, enough to BE us, but you miss the most important parts.