Juelz.gifCulture is not genetic. It's not passed down by DNA. If you are born and raised in America that's likely going to be your biggest cultural influence. If your parents moved to Africa before you were born and raised you there do you think you would magically identify with American culture? Of course not, you would talk, act like, and be a part of the culture of the Africans you have been surrounded by your whole life. This kid didn't have a haitian accent based off his IG page. You are doing the cherry picking I spoke about in my post. That kid is american as apple pie whether you like it or not. Nipsey hustle repped his Eitrean roots hard with the flag and all but that was different huh... you love taking the credits of the black immigrants and their American born children as your own. Cant have it both ways if that's the argument you are trying to make.
And since you are going down this "seperate groups" road let's take that line of thinking further. What do you think happens to black America if that were to ever occur? Do you think the picture of FBA will look better or worse? Ironically Yvette has spoken on this in the past but most (not all) colleges and advanced degree programs are filled these days with blacks that are actually black immigrants or the 2nd/ 3rd generation american kids of immigrants. statistics don't separate them out cause everyone just checks the same "black" box but a lot of "positive" data on blacks yall love to use in pro ADOS talking points is heavily skewed and propped up by the inclusion of all groups of blacks in that data. Separating the groups would mean ADOS would be native american status over night. Only 69% of "black" students graduate high school. Let's be real, do you think that number goes up or down when you take out non ADOS and their descendants? This is one of few things I actually agree with Yvette on (although folks call her a pessimist) .. the reality is the picture is really bleak for ADOS if look at the data and stats in that way.
The ADOS black community also owns very little of their own communities. Outside of cacs, Hispanics, arabs, asians, indians, caribbeans, east africans and west africans pretty much own all the businesses in the hood. Of those groups the only one who consistently employs, works with, and does business with ADOS are west africans and caribbeans. Those are the only 2 allies ADOS has left and a major source of economic empowerment if ADOS blacks ever got in touch with their roots and invested in doing business and strengthening ties with those groups and countries. It's not a surprise that white supremacy has focused on destroying those ties. It's a global economy and cacs, asians, and idians are getting rich in africa while ADOS blacks are missing the gravy train. Tariq got yall focused on isolationism from these groups when you should be focused on how you can make money together.
People dont want to take responsibility for the people in their groups. They offload that responsibility on to ADOS. We have enough problems. YOU attributed him murdering someone with black american like it's a feature. Like people all around the world ,including his home country, dont murder.
Also, it's amazing how "let's be pan-African yall" until a murder happens then all of a sudden you see a clear cut separate culture? This is the same shyt white people do whenever we talk about appropriation. "We all share culture...nobody owns it". Then 2 seconds later "black culture is single parent households, drugs, violence, gangs, and crime". All of a sudden there's a separate group for the bad shyt.
Ole boy was draped in another flag, the people repping that need to be held accountable. Don't drop this bullshyt at our doorstep.