Another ignorant unlearned retarded post from you.
Roasting is not even from African Americans. It was brought from Africa to the USA by the Mande slaves. Among the Mande people it is called a "Joking Relationship." It is a way to strengthen family and community bonds, which probably explains why Africans Americans show more solidarity among each other than many other Black people.
Joking Relationships
Culture Mia Sogoba18 May 2018
In most cultures, it would be rude to openly mock a complete stranger, absolutely insulting to call them a slave, and downright criminal to waltz into their home and steal their television. Within the context of joking relationships — or “cousinage”,
sinankunya in Mali,
rakiré in Burkina Faso — these things can be perfectly acceptable in West Africa, and often result in picturesque scenes and much laughter.
Dynamics of Joking Relationships
Joking relationships allow, encourage, and sometimes even oblige, members of certain groups, even total strangers, to taunt, tease or insult each other with no social consequence, no held grudges, and no offense taken.
Extent and Limits of Banter
The banter in joking relationships often devolves into a contest of wits, of who can come up with the most clever, creative and comical insult. These picturesque, almost theatrical scenes play out every day, in the streets, in concession stores, in the markets, during ceremonies, and even at work in the office or during official state summit meetings.
The interactions occasionally go beyond surface stereotypes, eating habits and obscure bits of history. They sometimes breach the borders of the sacred beliefs and practices of a people:
“Bozo ridiculed the principal foods of Dogon — namely, millet and crocodile meat — as being fodder for horses; and Dogon retorted that the Bozo was a fish that walked on land (alluding to the vulnerability of a species forced outside of its normal habitat). Bozo accused the other’s spiritual chief of never washing and being licked by a snake (referring to the Lebé cult); Dogon cursed the Bozo as being that “dirty thing of the water” that has made the water
djinn (spirits or genies) impure.”
— Trevor H.J. Marchand, referencing the writings of Marcel Griaule
While there are no limits on the time and place and creativity of the insults, there are some boundaries: dragging someone’s mother into it is a big
faux pas. Starting an actual fight and drawing blood is likewise unacceptable. If the interaction turns belligerent, the offender can gift some
kola nuts, symbols of peace, to ask for forgiveness.
Even funerals are not exempt. Burials are often disrupted by close friends, paired in these intimate alliances. Smiths crash Fula funerals, preventing the body from being moved by any means necessary, until they are given money. Likewise, grand-children demand gifts before allowing their grand-parents’ funerals to proceed. A deceased
Bissa.
Origins and Social Function
This custom can be traced back through the oral histories to Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire. Ethnologists, though, think it may be a much more ancient practice.
In reality, joking relationships are no joke: they are much more serious and profound than a simple, light-hearted ice-breaker. They are a consequence of ancestral alliances, blood pacts and ties of honor between groups. While some alliances have faded, some like the Dogon-Bozo or the Fula-smith caste, remain strong. In these intense kinships, the joking relationship often goes hand-in-hand with social taboos. A prohibition on inter-marriage and sexual contact between the members of each group is typical. This supposedly helps avoid the jealousies and strife surrounding romantic relationships: many a war has been fought over a woman.
The golden rule of joking relationships is never harm the other. This prescription for mutual respect, assistance and friendship helps avoid conflicts between groups and promotes peaceful compromise. It offers a cathartic, non-offensive way to air grievances and soothe tensions. “Prevention is better than cure,” as Balla Fasséké,
griot to the first emperor of Mali, would say.
Sources and Further Reading
Books, papers and articles:
Joking Relationships | Cultures of West Africa
fukk around and they find each other and collab on some yaadi fukkery 
. Yeah, im admiring my own people. Shoot me.
So you should continue on with the same stuff that you guys were doing on the plantation that’s a slave like mentality. That culture needs to die. It’s disgusting you guys will roast and clown people on being african or Haitian or being dark skinned. You guys will make fun of and roast people if they are poor or “unattractive”,etc why is it cool and funny to bully and harass people especially other people in their black features. So please duck off with that bullshyt
, attacking that poor girl.
. This is black american women doing it to a black man, does that mean they think he is an animal in the zoo?
