It’s time for Africans in America to identify with African-Americans

[Apollo Creed]

I found out recently that african americans have paternal dna that most africans don't carry....

what kind of dna

 

[Michael9100]

what kind of dna

300,000+ year old dna found on the paternal side....

 

[K.O.N.Y]

We identify with everything but Wealth and power lol. Go to any Black area and there is a church on every corner. Look at the LGBT community who put their sexuality before their race then end up having different sects within that umbrella. Look at African Americans who only rock with those form a certain region, look at Africans who only rock with other Africans of a certain tribe, look at Dominicans who dont rock with Haitians and they are on the same damn land mass.

Anyone that isn't talking about gaining wealth and power is pretty much just going to die under the system that is oppressing them so its no point in "joining forces" with them. If you meet another Black person and they ask you crap like "what is your religion?" "are you gay or straight?" "you African or AA?" anything besides "lets get this money" you better run.

Its not really that simple. Culture and identity plays a big role no matter how or who slices it

 

[Nomad1]

article is a bunch of generalizations.

 

[Apollo Creed]

300,000+ year old dna found on the paternal side....

What does this even mean

 

[Apollo Creed]

Its not really that simple. Culture and identity plays a big role no matter how or who slices it

No it is that simple. You think Chinese business men ask if Indian business men are in the nation of islam? Or the nation of hindu or something lol. Nobody gives a damn about culture when it comes to return on investments.

 

[Michael9100]

What does this even mean

In the context of this thread... nothing much

 

[Apollo Creed]

In the context of this thread... nothing much

I`m saying you have yet to say the region of origin. It could be from the caves of Europe, lol how is this special and going to improve peoples current situation?

 

[Poitier]

You can't force anyone to identify a certain way nor would I want to team up with anyone who I had to force.

 

[The Nigerian]

It's time for Africans in America to identify with African-Americans

It’s time for Africans in America to identify with African-Americans

My name is Moji Akinde, and I am an African from Nigeria. And I am American. And I am black. And I am African-American.

I am baffled that, in light of the murders of innocent black lives, a disturbingly large number of my fellowAfrican brethren refuse to identify and empathize with being African-American. We are of the rhetoric that African-Americans could somehow avoid being racially profiled, targeted and killed by simply altering the way they dress, talk, act and live. We believe that if only black people would say their “Please” and “Thank Yous,” if only they wore a 3-piece suit to bed, if only they didn’t speak unless spoken to, if only they didn’t drink or smoke, if only. . .

We tell them to “just go to school” but refuse to acknowledge the bravery of little Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend an all-white school post segregation in 1960.

We tell them to “just get a job,” yet we forget that we walked the roads paved by Ms. Rosa Parks, whose courage inspired the civil rights movement, which led to the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. This enabled all of us to secure reasonable jobs and gave us the ability to send monthly money transfers to our loved ones back home.

We tell them to “just stay out of jail,” yet we forget that it was African-Americans like Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, and Fannie Lou Hamer who spent time in jail, with hopes that one day we would not be unjustly beaten or persecuted simply for the color of our skin.

We say “they have no African home training” but forget that Amadou Diallo was a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea who had only lived in New York for 3 years when 19 of the 41 shots fired at him killed him. His African home training did not save him.

We say “they are always fighting,” yet we forget that Abner Louima, a trained electrician from Haiti working as a security guard in Brooklyn, was breaking up a fight when he was assaulted and sodomized by NYPD officers.

My African people, blinded by an inexplicable superiority complex, fail to see that we are no different from African-Americans, whose ancestors (and our sisters and brothers) broke down walls of oppression and built roads to liberation so that we African immigrants may enter this country of our own free will, not forcefully stuffed in the bottom of a boat. And because we did not sail 7,000+ miles in a ships’ hull, we think that we are exempt from racism, prejudice, injustice, harm and in more frequent cases than necessary, death, based solely on our Africanness.

We believe that racism is and can be influenced by ones’ accents, affluence and accolades. We delude ourselves in thinking that the racist man only need take one look at the nice camouflage we’ve bought ourselves with our nice money, at the nice department store, in our nice neighborhood and see that we are not like “those people.”

Almost all Africans living in the Unites States know someone who dreams of the day they too will be in the “land of opportunity.” We all know of the horror stories, the challenges and obstacles that our African family members go through just to obtain entry into the United States. Because we fight so hard to get to America, many of us feel that African-Americans take their citizenship for granted, and we come to resent them. However, their centuries of struggles for a more fair and just America should dispel that myth. We have to stand with them as they continue to fight against injustice. We are the literal definition of African-American, and their struggle is our struggle too.

If we ignore this fight, we risk waking up one day to our son being the next Tamir Rice. He will not have an African accent because he was born and raised in America. He will speak English as a first language with that Chicago, New York or Houston drawl. He will not have that “African home training,” and he will tell his friends he’s African-American because it is true. He might talk back to his parents. He might talk back to his teachers. He might skip class. He might play loud music or stand on a corner with his friends. He might do something silly like play with a toy gun or buy some snacks at the convenience store. And because of the color of his skin, it is possible he could be killed. With what narrative would you justify his death? The forces that we fight against respect no shade of black or brown. They will kill ‘Tunde’ as quickly as they will kill ‘Tyrone.’

"Black Culture" here in America creates that chasm... at least for me. Too many Black Americans are stuck on that slave minded bullsh!t. I can't relate to being a perpetual b!tch in society. I was raised to be a man.

 

[OfTheCross]

No it is that simple. You think Chinese business men ask if Indian business men are in the nation of islam? Or the nation of hindu or something lol. Nobody gives a damn about culture when it comes to return on investments.

You're wrong. Venezuelans only do business with ppl they're cool with politically. I know Argentinians that only mess with Argentinians that are of Italian descent. I'm sure every countries ppl has it's own divides within their borders.

Now, when they come here they're less divided because there are less of them so it's beneficial if they work together

 

[Apollo Creed]

You're wrong. Venezuelans only do business with ppl they're cool with politically. I know Argentinians that only mess with Argentinians that are of Italian descent. I'm sure every countries ppl has it's own divides within their borders.

Now, when they come here they're less divided because there are less of them so it's beneficial if they work together

Both of those nations are non factors on this planet. They could cease to exist today and the world wouldnt flinch

 

[OfTheCross]

Both of those nations are non factors on this planet. They could cease to exist today and the world wouldnt flinch

That's not the point. I used them as examples because I speak with those people. But the point remains that Chinese and Indians and every other country in the world has sects. And people may not do business with eachother if they don't share the same beliefs or come from the same region or look the same.

Stop making it seem like that's a black thing.

 

[Apollo Creed]

That's not the point. I used them as examples because I speak with those people. But the point remains that Chinese and Indians and every other country in the world has sects. And people may not do business with eachother if they don't share the same beliefs or come from the same region or look the same.

Stop making it seem like that's a black thing.

Are the chinese in america only doing business with christians?
Are indians only doing business with hindus?

People do business with others who have power wealth and influence.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

They should so support..

Remember Amadou diallo!