How so?
Black Americans are descendants of American slaves. We built America and created or own culture, just like Black Islanders and Afro latinos have their own culture.
Hip hop and Black American vernacular, which fat joe and the poster @CubanVoodooBreh i quoted is wanting to be apart of was created by Black Americans in America. That is not traditional African culture.
Hip hop is not the tradition of any other country or culture of people and neither is Black American vernacular, especially since most other groups Native language is not even English.
The term Black was also created by Black Americans (while looking for a name other than N*gger, colored, and Negro which white Americans were calling) as like I said, Black is an English word and most other peoples language is not English. They were just called African until they started moving to the u.s. in droves and lumped in with us or wanted to be included. It was only then that it began to change to mean "of African descent".
Come with facts please, or dont come at all
So you're saying that black foreigners and racially mixed people who identify with african culture should come to the united states and not assimilate into black american culture, or even be influenced by it? Even after spending generations here? Also did i read that wrong or are you saying that hip hop has no african roots? Not trying to attack you or come at u sarcastically because i feel the united states is a weird country cuz you have two different cultures, white culture and black culture and latin people specifically have to make a conscious choice on which to align themselves with to be taken seriously as 'americans' otherwise we just get seen as immigrant spics who dont wanna adapt to the US. Because i live here, i care about the culture that i feel for, and its easier to make a jump from Caribbean afrolatin inspired culture into African american culture than to gravitate towards mainstream white american culture because at least with black americans we have certain overlaps. I honestly cant tell you too much about white american culture and i consume from them too, whereas i feel black folk are more accepting in certain cases.
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it’s amusing.