The 2017 Coli census, are AA's really a minority on this board?

[K.O.N.Y]

What about Malcom X and WEB Dubois

malcolm is more AA than other
As far as Dubois, was his family distinctively haitian. Or were they africans who went through haiti

 

[BigMan]

Malcolm X had one parent from the islands, his mother. He's still AA.

but isn't he Caribbean too

 

[Karb]

but isn't he Caribbean too

He is mixed technically, but grew up in the AA culture, which his own mother seems to have adopted. He was AA.

 

[BigMan]

malcolm is more AA than other
As far as Dubois, was his family distinctively haitian. Or were they africans who went through haiti

More ?

And web Dubois 's mother side is from free blacks from New York and his father side are at least two/three generation deep Haitian

His father was an immigrant

 

[hustlemania]

this threads just another chance for everybody to be Black, with no real evidence..

 

[BigMan]

He is mixed technically, but grew up in the AA culture, which his own mother seems to have adopted. He was AA.

So why isn't that jamaicbreh AA since adopted AA culture

 

[1thouwow]

So I'm A first gen black American, if I have a son born here is he carribean American too? @K.O.N.Y

 

[Karb]

So why isn't that jamaicbreh AA since adopted AA culture

He has zero AA roots. Malcolm did AND grew up in the culture.

You're reaching now, breh

 

[Karb]

So I'm A first gen black American, if I have a son born here is he carribean American too? @K.O.N.Y

He is whatever he wants to be as are you, but for the purpose of this poll, y'all are both Caribbean

 

[K.O.N.Y]

but isn't he Caribbean too

i've already said that people who are half other with an afram parent qualify as AA. Though X's mother was only half caribbean so he was more 1/4 caribbean. Something people seem to always zoom over

 

[thatrapsfan]

people make imaginary gray area when it comes to AA ethnic identity
Both farrakhan and garvey are caribbean

Its not an AA-only thing. I can think of direct equivalents in terms of how people interpret the meaning of plenty of ethnicity. People act like there's a science to defining what "Arab" means for example and end up finding themselves in knots. Ethnicity is not science and changes over history, even as distinctions are developed. Its not a controversial statement. There's a reason why even though this forum has expended 100000 of topics to this subject, it still can't reach consensus.

It's not hard to see why its easy for second and third generation anglophone Caribbeans with similar ancestry in the States, to be assimilated into the AA category. Its a real grey area not an invented one.

 

[(Lean Ambrose)]

What about Malcom X and WEB Dubois

Naw naw oh hell naw nikka...
Malcolm X is a brother born in Omaha...
I got family out there...
You ain't taking the GOAT from us...
Them fighting words...

 

[Trajan]

Bruh tagged @Trajan that bruh African
@Nemesis Nigerian

Don't believe everything you see iyah

I'm transracial breh.

When @Luken tags I go to swarm with the rest of the Yardies. Don't want to let breh down

 

[Turk]

My parents are African immigrants. I feel like I'm neither African nor AA.

People like us need our own category because we're stuck in the middle

 

[Karb]

People like us need our own category because we're stuck in the middle

Where in Africa are your parents from breh?