Cape Verdeans' role as middlemen in the transatlantic slave trade

[Dusty Bake Activate]

It would be naïve to say that Cape Verdeans found an accepting Massachusetts waiting for them upon their arrival, but the large diasporic community banded together and created an enclave that shielded them from the outside world in places like Nantucket and Fox Point. My family was part of that community until racial tensions began to build and fewer people associated themselves with their Cape Verdean heritage. The family that my great grandfather and my great grandmother created faced an immense amount of discrimination as they attempted to build a life in America. Like many other Cape Verdean families, they denied their African background and started telling people that they were Portuguese. This allowed them to navigate the color line and sit in the front of buses, eat at segregated diners, and drink from whites only water fountains during a racially tense time in American history. However, attempting to pass as white during this time period did not completely erase their African ancestry in the eyes of their neighbors.

My father was raised in Boston during the 1960s and 1970s, a very tough place to be a young black boy, even if he did not identify as black. He had bricks thrown at him and was called a ****** more times than he can count. He was chased out of neighborhoods and threatened on a daily basis, which was perplexing for a young child who believed he was Portuguese. My brother faced some of the same challenges growing up in suburban Texas. He was called derogatory names and beaten up for being what others perceived as black.

Some blog entry.

 

[Crakface]

@Crakface mom's blog entry.

I have some relatives who could pass for white and during the civil rights era whites would try to pull them to the white side to fight against black people when those irish fakkits would get into mobs to go into capeverdean neighborhoods to beat people up but they said. and joined the black side to throw bricks at them.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Crazy that dude looks persian. interesting.

My old roommate was in the upper caste and he was darker than me. lol.

Yeah now check this video, this is an authentic south Indian Brahmin initiation/sacred thread ceremony:



I don't think there's a light skinned Indian in the room. In one part of the video you see how the low caste barber isn't allowed into the ritual room and he's the same color as everyone else.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I have some relatives who could pass for white and during the civil rights era whites would try to pull them to the white side to fight against black people when those irish fakkits would get into mobs to go into capeverdean neighborhoods to beat people up but they said. and joined the black side to throw bricks at them.

Boston is one of the most racist cities in the country and people of Cape Verdean descent generally tend to be some of the biggest c00ns in the African diaspora, so that's like a nympho living in the red light district of Amsterdam. They couldn't help themselves.

Your family probably collected rocks for the cacs to throw at black kids during the integration violence hoping to get a seat at the front of the bus. They probably wrote letters to the Boston Globe calling Bill Russell a ******. Cowards.

 

[Crakface]

Yeah now check this video, this is an authentic south Indian Brahmin initiation/sacred thread ceremony:



I don't think there's a light skinned Indian in the room. In one part of the video you see how the low caste barber isn't allowed into the ritual room and he's the same color as everyone else.

Wow, i wonder why the OP never embraces any of his indian heritage and is always running around claiming black. This seems like an interesting culture.

 

[The Real]

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

We need to chase crakface back in the caves.

 

[bigcv]

This is one funny thread...your average Cape Verdean did not play a role in the slave trade. This is like saying African Anericans were involved slavery because of white slave masters. Cape Verde and those times had white minority who pretty much ruled everything.

Why not mention Cape Verdeans such as Amilcar Cabral, who unified a rival ethnic groups in Guinea Bissau and launched a gorilla war that freed Cape Verde and Guinea from colonialism.
You people are looking for self hate in the wrong country. It's true we've been through all kind colonial induced negatives, (as all your countries and people have experienced)but we are better people for it. Our society doesn't have the type colorism you find in the Americas not even close.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

 

[bigcv]

That's a lie. Amber Rose needed a story for the show. No Cape Verdean family is boycotting a wedding because someone is African Amaerican...lol maybe they boycotted the wedding because he looks like a crackhead and she was a stripper. Cape Verdean families don't approve of crackheads and strippers.

 

[Yehuda]

So this is why they're "so demonic"?

 

[bigcv]

Cape Verde capital Praia...a bunch of People as black Wiz no one gives a shyt, we are not segregated:

 

[bigcv]

Cape Verdean revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral:

 

[Kritic]

@thekingsmen being a sex tourist

Spoiler

what you got against capitalism and supporting local trade...

 

[88m3]

That's what they advertise but all Indians are caste concious when it comes to religious affairs and marriage.

Buddhism rejects the caste system too, but all the Buddha's were either brahmins or Kshatriyas.

That seems pretty convenient...