Your all over the place with this
Stop being a coward and answer his question. Where are ya people from
Black is the ethnicity that I claim. If you're asking if I'm a descendant of slaves brought to America from Africa, the answer is yes. Now what? You cats are always looking for easy ways out of debates with these weak ass ad hominems.
You are mising the point. Theres literally no conflict of interest between your point and mine
Im a coward because i have the ability to see whats right in front of me
No i am being very honest about this i can only stand by what i've personally posted
African Americans promoting Afram culture or placing aframs first is the most logical and adult approach to this.
You're a coward because you insist on being dishonest while refusing to acknowledge the truth. My position here contradicts your position. I don't agree with the bold and I think that mentality is c00n shyt. What you're promoting in bold is tribalism and I've clearly explained why I'm completely against that. You can word it or dress it up however you want and I'm still not going to agree with you. Your mentality breeds division and you're so lacking in integrity that you can't even be honest about it. "We ain't being divisive, we just saying that it's AAs over everything".
Is saying aframs need to strengthen our cultural union not a true statement?
No we need to strengthen our racial union.
What the fukk is "African American culture" anyway? Slavery? As stolen Africans in America we've been robbed of our true culture. We're prisoners of war in this country. All you AAs in this thread are named after slave masters just like I am. We don't even know who we truly are. We've been divorced from everything. Our land, languages, religions, food, ect. If AAs do have a culture the shyt is dysfunctional. Our food(soul food) is unhealthy and much of our music is poisonous. Our family structure is broken and the worst part about all of this is that we're currently headed in the wrong direction. We're a gay friendly matriarchal community that's weak, dysfunctional, vulnerable, and completely dependent on white society to survive. I don't see that as worthy of being promoted.
There is no debate. Its simple, we're going to have to take care of our own first. Period The rest of the diaspora will do the same. We cant even do what you suggest without doing this
You aren't being divisive tho right? Who is "our own"? We're all black dude. I'm for black empowerment. fukk a "African American" empowerment. That's c00n shyt. You cats can't even agree on who's black in amerikkka. We could sit here arguing for hours over who is and isn't black.
Drop the tribalism and wake up. Ethnocentrism isn't oppressing us, racism is. The only thing that I've suggested in this thread is that we drop the tribalism and unite to achieve the goal of black empowerment. That doesn't mean that all blacks have to come together hold hands and sing kumbaya. That doesn't mean that you can't take pride in being a black amerikkkan if that's what you want to do(o think that's silly but whatever). Im simply saying that we should put our race first and work to empower those in our race.
You weak low self esteem having people have just gotten your feelings hurt by some Africans who either looked down on you or rejected you, and this #AAgang shyt makes you feel better. That's all this shyt is about. Hurt feelings. "Them Africans are saying fukk us so it's fukk them too". You all act like children.
The notion that we can all come together under the notion of shared "blackness" has been something deeply embedded in our culture in the first place. Even with opposition coming from the diaspora on this. We've been placing pan africanism in our criteria since the late 1800's. Saying you are AA first doesnt negate the fact that you are black
Saying you are something before black is c00n shyt. It doesn't matter what it is. Black feminists who put their gender before their blackness are c00ns. Black Christians/Muslims/Jews who put their religion before their blackness are c00ns. It's the same with you all in this thread. Y'all putting ethnicity or amerikkkaness before your blackness makes you c00ns. You're black first and all that other shyt comes after. No excuses or exceptions.
Love the awakening. Our people have been made to believe we have to put other groups before ourselves, but that's finally changing.
When and how have we as black Americans put any other blck ethnicity above our own? One example. You dudes sound about as delusional as black feminists.