“Don’t call me African” – Black America’s identity crisis

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I can't speak for any other races, but if one of my relatives from Canada/US came to me and repped being Chinese like mad, in my mind I would be like, you look Chinese, so you pass, but culturally you are very removed from your roots. Not entirely, but very.


If you won't eat chicken's feet you ain't true Chinese :troll:
Your math scores aren't MENSA level :troll:
you never crashed a car:troll:
you wear abercrombie and fitch :scust:
 

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Not this shyt again! People who are classified as Black or Non-White need to study the European and American histories (including colonial Spanish American like African men escaping slavery St. Augustine and marrying Indian women ), talk to elders, research their own family oral history, Census records, marriage certificates, etc and even those bogus DNA tests before they claim anything. I refuse to have a person that cannot name their great grandparents forward, on both sides, to tell me what I am or who I should identify with (I have a family tree :ufdup: ). Whites, or rather the elites, have a history of displacing others and renaming them to suit their agenda and maintain systems. Most North Carolinians are taught nothing about the Tuscarora War,however it was a brutal massacre where women and children prisoners of war were sent to English colonies on the Caribbean islands for slave labor. This type of genocidal shyt continued along the Eastern Seaboard for centuries (not taught in history). So much for that Coolie blood or family features being attributed solely to immigrant workers from India. Slaves were often sold every few years so it was difficult to maintain ties, family or any type of tradition or history. Not to mention intermixing and all disenfranchised/conquered people given the same moniker. Indians in Brazil were called negros da terra by the Portuguese, the leaders of the slave trade, and many mixed with the sub-subharan transplants. Lets not mention the African slaves that were traded in Virgn

Americans who maintained their "African-ness" and culture are the Gullah in Low Country or Savannah and people pick on their and accents (and their strange love of rice :dahell:) with a vengeance. Anyone country and backwards is called a Geechie. Even the Yoruba on the Islands or those Catholics who practice Santeria (African roots) are picked ostracized. The rest of Black Americans are a hodgepodge of displaced people, many from multigenerational poverty, corralled together under the same label, unless you were lucky enough to pass or marry out. Is it no coincidence that the descendants of those Mississippi sharecroppers that fled to California, Detroit and Chicago are in similar economic conditions as their great grandparents? These hoteps, natural nazis and new Queen Bey Formation militants are getting annoying with their ignorance. If anything this call to Africa should be a global concept, including all displaced people. There will never be a solution to this until oppressed people, globally and collectively, come together. Hell enough Mexicans with knowledge and balls could bankrupt this country alone since it has never truly honored the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago to this day. Not to mention if Black Americans went to UN and charged the US of crimes against humanity as Malcolm, Paul Robeson et. al attempted to do. Instead we keep begging for acceptance, inclusion (while sporting a locs and a twist out with edges on "fleek") instead of dismantling this global economic caste system while fighting over arbitrary terms denoted to keep our Black/Coloured/Mulatto/Negro/African asses in perpetual poverty. Pardon my rant but it truly saddening to see so many ignorant and broken people.
 

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I can't help but feel that we AA's see things like what's in this video and it makes us distance ourselves from Africa
Just skim through the video (I didn't make it very long)
 

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How many Coli "Africans" have been to Africa. Probably less than 10% :scust:

I've been twice the last 12 months. But you bring up a good point. Not to come at anybody but to discuss. Breh, it's expensive, most black men don't have passports, and they don't have people to visit.
 

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I can't help but feel that we AA's see things like what's in this video and it makes us distance ourselves from Africa
Just skim through the video (I didn't make it very long)


True, but you have to be intelligent and think out the box. Is every Asian country or culture the same? Nope. The same applies to African cultures as well. For God sake, it is a continent of nearly a billion people, not everyone is the same or practice the same culture. Even within the same country within African there is a contrast of culture and lifestyles.
 

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lol at needing passports. I go where i want minus one.
you'd be surprised. I speak with a lot of younger kids in our Boys 2 Men program and ask them about travel abroad to african diasporic countries and majority of them have never flown anywhere. Those who have are usually flying within the US. And the older young men talk about Dubai and Paris cause they see them/hear about them in music but have never been there or anywhere outside of the US usually due to lack of funds, lack of knowing how to get a passport, and thinking they wouldn't have people to associate with.
 

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ONLY black people talk like this. NOBODY, NO other ethnic group talks like this.

I've heard yt people time and time again acknowledge their Irish, Italian, Scottish, English, German, Dutch, Polish, etc heritage. If you've traveled and truly been exposed to other cultures in America you see these people still practicing many aspects of their culture.

ONLY black people have show shame(unapologetic shame) for their heritage.

The declaration of independence was a long time ago also, but nobody's saying they can't relate to that. YET DNA which is more tangible than ideals written on a paper they can't relate to.

I've learned that human beings will rationalize anything to do what they TRULY want, even if they're wrong
 

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I can't speak for any other races, but if one of my relatives from Canada/US came to me and repped being Chinese like mad, in my mind I would be like, you look Chinese, so you pass, but culturally you are very removed from your roots. Not entirely, but very.


If you won't eat chicken's feet you ain't true Chinese :troll:
Your math scores aren't MENSA level :troll:
you never crashed a car:troll:
you wear abercrombie and fitch :scust:
Asians need to stop giving themselves Anglo names. I hope your real name ain't Joey. You'll never see a white guy call himself Wangchang. So YTF are Asians naming themselves Bill and Marty. Use your own shyt.
 

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Another disconnect comes from income disparity.

African immigrants tend to earn as much as Asian immigrants, meanwhile native black Americans tend to be the poorest, and treated worse.

Even African immigrants treat black Americans like trash :mjcry:
 

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How many Italian-Americans been to Italy or Irish to Ireland? You going to challenge them too?

Theres little more corney than St Patrick's Day on the East Coast where every single cac tries to claim to be Irish. Those fakkits aint Irish. Same for 90% Italian Americans.
 

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There'd be way less confusion if African Americans were called something else besides black/Afican American IMO
the folks involved with making AA a thing im sure had the best intentions in mind
But as a AA if i were to be completely honest with myself
Its really a smart-dumb nikka designation
 

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the folks involved with making AA a thing im sure had the best intentions in mind
But as a AA if i were to be completely honest with myself
Its really a smart-dumb nikka designation
"Afram" which some use on thecoli works i think
 
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