While I have had my differences with the ADOS crew, I will say, there are some differences you when you see people like SAS and Owens
Nigeria basketball team to Stephen A Smith: Put some respect on our name. SAS apologizes
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I don't think he was poking fun at their names, but trying to say they are nobodies so he doesn't know how their names are pronounced which is still disrespectful
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SAS is proof that even though diaspora wars are stupid, AAs having a distinct ethnicity that we uphold and identify is actually a positive thing. i dont know why SAS is as big a c00n as he is, but we dont claim him. when people are winning at sports or claiming ownership over names of liquor companies, they let us know who we are and who we are not. i dont see why i have to hear anybody on twitter associating me with SAS' ignorance.
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VI's foundational culture/experiences are all prior to being under US control while also being on a whole other landmass
....I don't think anyone would say that the man below was Afram because of that
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I'm the one who brought up that SAS's parents are from USVI.What an interesting thread.
We know SAS to be a tap dancing c00n so his behavior here shouldn’t be a shock. And while VIers aren’t actual Africans from America they are colonial subjects of America so SAS has a weird background albeit not the same as AAs from the mainland. In terms of the diaspora, it’s the same origin story but the stories take different paths depending on where their ancestors were. Brother Malcolm would say sometimes during speeches that were better off just calling ourselves Africans in America. This always made sense to me, I’m an Ethiopian African and a breh from here would be an American African. So instead of being a minority, you’re a part of a global majority.
This logic also works if you are a child of Black immigrants. Anywhere we go in Africa, at most we’ve been adopted into the tribe so to speak but we still belong to where our parents are from. This also applies when it comes to African Americans. However despite having identities which are different it is our Blackness and our Africanness which has inextricably linked us while the cultures which come from our nationalities are what make us unique. But even in that, those cultures are rooted in Black/African culture so the similarities can still be found.
This definitely does point out how difficult things like identity can be with 1st generation Black people. I’m not Ethiopian enough to be Ethiopian and I’m not American enough to be American. That’s why leaning on my Africanness and my Blackness is better imo.
I've been consistent in saying that individuals are accountable for their own words, thoughts, and actions. Diaspora Wars have adults buying into childish notions about "Black person from country x said this, they speak for that entire group". Surprises me everytime to see grown men and women say such nonsense, and I have no respect for those who subscribe to it.
VI's foundational culture/experiences are all prior to being under US control while also being on a whole other landmass
....I don't think anyone would say that the man below was Afram because of that
I’m not arguing that they are AfrAm at all. I’m just saying they’re a little closer to the American experience than the average Black person not from the US. They have a weird relationship with America. Not the same as Black folks here but as Black colonial subjects of America.
It’s the epitome of backwards thinking. It feels so COINTELPROish. I believe in all my Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. fukk being a minority when together we are a majority.
