Cape Verdeans' role as middlemen in the transatlantic slave trade

[Dusty Bake Activate]

"In Cape Verde, the colonial system was unlike that of the other African countries. The Cape-Verdeans always were closer to the Portuguese, they had more opportunities for education, and they even became overseers in other colonies."

“Cape Verdeans were shaped to be sent to other African countries, as leaders. They were unlike Africans.”

“Cape Verdeans believe that they are above other Africans, but this is a consequence of the colonial period, when the Portuguese taught us that we were closer to them, that we were second-class Portuguese, so the racism of the Cape Verdean to other Portuguese-speaking African Countries is a Portuguese legacy. The result is that we tend to create closed groups, and that other Africans are unlikely to enter these groups.”


“In Cape Verde, all non-Cape-Verdean Africans are called "Manjacos." What’s bad, is "Manjaco."


“I am ashamed of even repeating this, but since I was a child I always heard my father say, "Manjacos" are worse than
monkeys!”

“In Cape-Verde, there was no distancing, Portugal was a protective father. When they come to Portugal, Cape-Verdeans are disappointed because things are not as they imagined, they do not work that way; Portugal becomes a bit of a stepmother, there never were any integration policies.”

Appalling.

 

[Crakface]

What's wrong with Guyana?

Well when your fathers indian you essentially have white privilege in Guyana. This is America though and here, he just looks like a t3rr0r1$t

 

[88m3]

Well when your fathers indian you essentially have white privilege in Guyana. This is America though and here, he just looks like a t3rr0r1$t

Why doesn't he live in Guyana then?



I feel like you want to argue with me but I'm honestly too tired from drinking and having sex the last two days.

 

[Crakface]

Why doesn't he live in Guyana then?



I feel like you want to argue with me but I'm honestly too tired from drinking and having sex the last two days.

I dont know his life. Based on his homosexual mannerisms, the possibilities are endless.

Im not studying you, you're like a cac, an instigator.

 

[theworldismine13]

"In Cape Verde, the colonial system was unlike that of the other African countries. The Cape-Verdeans always were closer to the Portuguese, they had more opportunities for education, and they even became overseers in other colonies."

“Cape Verdeans were shaped to be sent to other African countries, as leaders. They were unlike Africans.”

“Cape Verdeans believe that they are above other Africans, but this is a consequence of the colonial period, when the Portuguese taught us that we were closer to them, that we were second-class Portuguese, so the racism of the Cape Verdean to other Portuguese-speaking African Countries is a Portuguese legacy. The result is that we tend to create closed groups, and that other Africans are unlikely to enter these groups.”


“In Cape Verde, all non-Cape-Verdean Africans are called "Manjacos." What’s bad, is "Manjaco."


“I am ashamed of even repeating this, but since I was a child I always heard my father say, "Manjacos" are worse than
monkeys!”

“In Cape-Verde, there was no distancing, Portugal was a protective father. When they come to Portugal, Cape-Verdeans are disappointed because things are not as they imagined, they do not work that way; Portugal becomes a bit of a stepmother, there never were any integration policies.”

This explains a lot

 

[88m3]

I dont know his life. Based on his homosexual mannerisms, the possibilities are endless.

Im not studying you, you're like a cac, an instigator.

Ironically you more than likely have more 'white blood' than me. Says the man with three screen names.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

@Crakface come get your little sister off YouTube.

 

[Crakface]

Ironically you more than likely have more 'white blood' than me. Says the man with three screen names.

We dont even know what you look like. The most you've done is post a photo of an arm that you claim to be yours and it looked about as light as @Mephistopheles piss colored absent hairline. We do know you sound like a robotic cac vocally and you laugh at black women getting their head pounded in by cac cops so, yea.

 

[Crakface]

@Crakface come get your little sister off YouTube.

- a state run newspaper run by Indians depicting black men as criminals out to attack Indians. Your Indian father probably made that article.

- Come get your Auntie hurling racial slurs at black people in public

- A young @mephitopheles

I'm afro guyanese and i find all this hate between indos and afro stupid and we need to start getting along and help each other make it in life and also help each other build the country to be a better place and let the world know that there is a place called Guyana. I love every guyanese no matter what nationality you are.

There is clearly a problem out there.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

The distinction between "black" and "white" in the America to which the Cape Verdeans arrived was defined and the Cape Verdeans faced prejudice. Dr. Dwayne Williams, the executive director of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, spoke about Cape Verdeans to a group at Brown University in Providence in February of 1997. He explained that even when Americans attempted to classify Cape Verdeans as black, and often dismissed them because of that, "Cape Verdeans [still] refused to fit within this framework. That differentiates them." Those Cape Verdeans born in the nineteenth century, and before World War I in the islands and in America, created a distinct identity, separate from their African ancestors. They did not think of themselves as "African Americans" in the same way that the descendants of America's slaves did. For them, their European blood was as much a part of their ancestry as was their African blood. That was true especially for those who settled away from the concentrated Cape Verdean environments of New England, and moved into the Midwest. Because a majority of them were Roman Catholics in a country where few African Americans shared in that faith, Cape Verdean Americans more often found themselves in the company of other white Catholics. Many of these white Catholics were immigrants from Eastern Europe, also struggling to blend into their new country. The Cape Verdeans considered themselves Portuguese and usually expressed that distinction when their identity was questioned.

Cape Verdean immigrants, like their fellow white parishioners and factory coworkers in ethnic neighborhoods, spoke a different language. Although many of them were forced into black neighborhoods because of their skin color, earlier generations of Cape Verdean Americans maintained a society separate from other African Americans surrounding them. Their customs, their language, and their religion kept them together in closely-knit extended families. Cape Verdeans, into the middle of the twentieth century, often had large immediate families, with five or more children. For Catholics, practicing a faith that banned birth control and abortion, children were accepted as a natural consequence of marriage. For Cape Verdean Catholics endured a past marked by great uncertainty because of droughts and famines, and children were accepted not only as a matter of their faith. They were also received with joy at the prospect of continuing on and surviving for generations to come.

Treated like nikkas by the white establishment, but still maintain that they aren't black and would rather be around Roman Cacolics.

@Crakface peoples deal with the same racial institutional barriers as all other AAs since they came off the boat.

And they commit 20% of the crime in Boston despite only being 3% of the population.
http://afrol.com/articles/19337

But they're still like, "Nah we ain't nikkas. Look at my hair." Disgusting.

 

[The Real]

@Crakface come get your little sister off YouTube.

Dominican and Cape Verdean... the Voltron of Black denial.

 

[88m3]

Dominican and Cape Verdean... the Voltron of Black denial.

that video is some other shyt for real....

How can they do that shyt with a straight face and say "I'm not black, I'm not African".

@Crakface @Mowgli @MrSomebody somebody are you black? are you an african?

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

@Robbie3000 are the mixed Swahilis this bad?

 

[Robbie3000]

@Robbie3000 are the mixed Swahilis this bad?

They are a very small minority in Kenya so they don't show their ass. But I did watch this documentary where a Wesley Snipes complexion Muslim was denying being African and claiming that he was Persian.

shyt was and at the same damn time.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

that video is some other shyt for real....

How can they do that shyt with a straight face and say "I'm not black, I'm not African".

@Crakface @Mowgli @MrSomebody somebody are you black? are you an african?

There's another one of @Crakface kinfolk at 10:20 talking about she's not black and she gets offended when people call her black.