It has nothing to do with self hatred and it irks me because it comes off condescending.
Everyone isn’t educated nor have many African Americans been taught properly that we are descendants from West Africa. We simply can trace ourselves back to the continent, not anywhere specific.
Just like people who suffer from retrocognition many do entertain the notion we come directly from pharaohs, kings, or are Gods chosen people. That’s a lot more rich than the reality of our ancestors being regular members of whatever tribe or village that they were sold from.
So I think instead of belittling each other when it comes to this subject we should try to inform others of it. It’s sad because the reality is there really is a large portion of history that we can only generalize about. Idk i try not to hold anything against those who do think we came from Egypt or anywhere in the Middle East
They say it’s important to know your history so if it was true then there’s a part many didn’t know.
I don’t believe we are and I actually dislike the notion that we are because saying black people are Jews is a notion that gives validity to the treatment we’ve received in the Americas and Arab nations during the Arab slave trade and the Barbary slave trade.
Which is another reason I issues with the curse of ham discourse. No human being should be subjugates to the atrocities we’ve endured for so long.
I don’t know the answers to anything I just wished we all somehow figured out how to come together as a community and find the answers to turn around the barbaric conditions that we have suffered and what many will continue to